Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bookkeeper Cocklin for grand larceny making public the details of the fraud for the first time. He began to intimate that Governor Smith was guilty of at least poor judgment when he failed to hand Bookkeeper Cocklin over to authorities immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise his voice against Embezzler Cocklin at the time he was appointed Rutland's assistant city treasurer. With the Governor's errors the chief topic of conversation in the Green Mountain State, State...
...marvel at thy magnitude, I wonder at thy weight...
...that its excessively exotic qualities have the immediate effect of alienating the baffied spectator. He is more than apt to take the thing quite unsympathetically, and dismiss it as infantile makebelive. It is only after he has leisurely considered the explanatory notes on the program that he begins to wonder if he should have enjoyed the play in spite of himself. There is an elucidator in the performance, but he's such a fop that one is inclined not to listen to him, and his remarks are not very pertinent, anyway...
...American Petroleum Institute in Chicago last week there appeared a notable paradox. For while speakers lambasted Oil's perennial incubus of Taxation with might & main, many an oilman was ready to concede that in one instance, at least, Taxation had done the oil business good. The wonder worker was a particularly painful chain store tax which went into effect in Iowa in June 1935. Upon oil companies owning retail outlets it piled a new levy graduated steeply upward both on gross receipts and number of outlets. By last week it was apparent that this last straw, far from breaking...
...pays for the privilege of entering by passing high entrance examinations, later by a considerable expenditure of effort, by tuition, and high living costs. There is, however, a substantial, if not entirely vocal body of student opinion which denies Harvard's superiority as an undergraduate institution. These students wonder if the College will ever again see a Bliss Perry or a Charles Townsend Copeland, and whether the educational ideas of Harvard are not being transformed into a pattern which may eventually resemble that of the Carnegie Foundation...