Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said he: "I wonder if the Committee would bear with me . . . because after all it is getting right down to the roots of the credit of the Government. That is. may I talk without a record being made...
Japanese delegates to the London Naval Conference last week walked reverently with the U. S., British, French and Italian delegates around the great international loan exhibit of Chinese Art at Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). The soul of even the most bellicose Japanese is at peace in awe and wonder before marvels of Chinese Art. To the white delegates, most of whom did not escape inner qualms similar to an inferiority complex in Burlington House, sturdy little Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osamu Nagano explained exquisite niceties with elegance and charm...
...famed and lionized Mr. Kipling had married very simply the sister of a literary friend. She was of Vermont, and her name was Caroline Starr Balestier. In Vermont, ignoring the advice of well-wishers who desired them to build "an ordinary mortgageable house" they erected what is still the wonder of the countryside and quite reprehensible from a mortgage company's point of view-a house so extraordinary that all its rooms are on the side having the best view, with hallways on the other side. In this house two of the Kipling children were born and for them...
...only natural, then, that when trouble occurred in Manchuria he should follow developments with great attention, and wonder whether he was not destined to play some part in an attempt to improve the condition of his ancestral Provinces. Emissaries of the Separatist movement called upon him at Tientsin and urged him to proceed to Manchuria. And at last he felt that if he was ever to go. he must do so forthwith, or he might find it impossible to leave...
...Forty-eight-year-old William F. ("Willie") Hoppe, grey-haired boy wonder of Billiards in 1898, 15-time world champion at 18.2 balkline billiards, three-time champion at 18.1 balkline billiards, current cushion caroms champion, in a challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since...