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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have probably heard little if anything of Henri Gaudier; you have doubtless heard nothing at all of Sophie Brzeska (pronounced "B'jeska"). After reading Savage Messiah you will wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius, Died Young* | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...among the orchestra players at an opera he was conducting. Most children would have been fascinated by the action on the stage but the Belgian conductor's child behaved that day in a manner which determined his career. He ignored the stage, watched the violinists with open-mouthed wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ysa | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...italics are mine, and the quotation is word for word from the paper referred to. This would seem to be about the highest tribute thus far paid to the veterans of the World War. . . . I wonder if it will pass unchallenged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...which aroused us to a realization that this "lapse" is widespread. At Oregon University, Yale, Brown, Columbia and numerous others, undergraduate and alumni editors are "viewing with alarm." So far, they too seem to have considered the bad manners to be mere passing clouds, but we are inclined to wonder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naughty! Naughty! | 3/3/1931 | See Source »

...interesting sidelights on college life outside the United States were brought out by news dispatches yesterday, and after reading them, one stops to wonder if the American college youth is such a virile animal, after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Virility Necessary? | 2/28/1931 | See Source »

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