Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia and have heartily seconded Mr. Dow's suggestion that Mrs. Schroeder's $50 be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life. And now, after having seen yesterday a Grantland Rice Sportlight featuring the six unique otter pets of a gentleman from Minnesota, I wonder why some philanthropist does not initiate a fund for the preservation of the American otter...
Reminiscent of the recent koala incident, I wonder if the American public is aware of the plight of our native ruffed grouse...
...occasionally answering questions, but the class has expanded beyond the discussion stage. What little personal contact one does make during the half year is gleaned solely from the altogether too brief weekly laboratory sections. With three hours of laboratory work crammed into a two-hour session is it any wonder that 90 per cent of the enrollment finds itself cranking adding machines in Boylston through most of the Reading Period...
...source of unending wonder to Secretary of the Interior Ickes is the number of remarkable and recurring "coincidences" in which half a dozen big U. S. manufacturers submit secret bids-identical down to the last decimal-for Government contracts. Last week it was the Navy's turn to wonder at bids, though not at identical ones. For the first time in official memory the Government could get no bids at all on something it needed...
From the effect on Congress of Mr. Roosevelt's startling message, the average citizen may have fair cause to tremble and wonder what is really happening at the White House. Probably some of the distinguished senators on Capitol Hill are also apprehensive of the President's latest scheme, and if they dare to speak at the facts behind the shrewd dialectics of the Brownlow Committee, they may find Mr. Roosevelt adding buckets of water to his basin of power. Soon the whole country must know whether the President has at last expressed his true intentions...