Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...below the keynote of the scale previously indicated," observed Sir Richard. Evidently, "the wind was playing on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th overtones of the pipe, and the melody was being produced by the rapid fluctuations of wind-pressure." The mystery and his solution make Sir Richard "wonder whether such an effect can ever have occurred in Nature-a broken bamboo stem, for example, partially obstructed at its windward end, and so shielded by vegetation, soil, etc., as to produce a pressure difference between its open ends? The effect of elaborate melodies thus produced without human intervention would...
...know whether she was a phantom of his sub-conscious imagination, a ghost, or a real person. We are assured that the whole thing is probably but a lapse into madness, but the last bit of evidence about the finding of the basket she had carried makes us wonder. It is this very uncertainty that makes the story uncanny and also successful...
...cheering sections of our opponents are a shameful contrast to our own. How many cheer leaders of other colleges have to beg their men to "make some noise? I wonder how many of the present undergraduate body know the words of even one of Harvard's great football songs? So few that the University Band has given up playing them and gives us instead medleys of largely irrelevant, albeit well--played music. In parenthesis I should like to congratulate the Band on its magnificent spirit at New Haven last Saturday. That made...
...wonder as you look at him and listen to him-is it so impossible that he be the Raphael reincarnate? For he tells you that his birthday falls on the same day, the same month as the Italian's. . . . The horses in the Ravenne bear an, unmistakable likeness to Raphael...
...Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...