Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murder of the host's brother. For some fifteen minutes the finger of suspicion points alternately to each of the guests. The tenseness of the situation reaches a maximum; suddenly a scream is heard, the butler staggers in, ghastly pale, and the curtain falls. The audience is left to wonder which of thirteen possible suspects, each with some betrayal of guilt, is the murderer. Derby Brown, in the part of the host, first a beaming Mr. Pickwick and then a leering Mephistopheles, does a rare bit of acting which alone makes the play worth seeing...
...line. If the Senate cannot command respect even from its own subordinates, its prestige in the country at large must suffer. And when all this is added to the protracted Bronx cheer which the nation's press has directed at the defenceless lame ducks, there is small wonder that the Senatorial ire is aroused...
...players who went to Australia last October for a tour like the one which Tilden & Johnston made in 1920, knew about Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman, mainstays of last year's Australian Davis Cup team. But all they had heard about McGrath was that he is a boy wonder who hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they started to play, they found out more. In last week's quarter-finals at Melbourne, Vivian McGrath played Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., U. S. and Wimbledon champion, who had beaten him before. Whacking Vines's hardest...
...workman trimming a big tree in Tuscarawas Park at New Philadelphia, Ohio one day last week, suddenly gasped and stared. There, in a rain-filled crevice, 40 ft. above ground, alive and wriggling, lay a 7-in. catfish. Goggle-eyed with wonder, the sawyer carried it down, threw it in a nearby lake. The catfish swam swiftly away...
...mind. Formal education has certain immense advantages. The deliberate breadth of the instruction offered, the association with professional teachers and with other students, stimulate the mind before contact with the world has paralyzed it with routine. But college instruction, as every college instructor agrees, has no exclusive rights to wonder, awareness, judgment and intellectual honesty. Although many educated men have degrees after their names, the will to be educated, which is the first essential, does not require tuition fees...