Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while the Freshman is treated with this amused disdain on one side, he is overwhelmed with solicitations on the other. No wonder the poor devil does not know what to expect...
...present job of building radio shows, Riley started training at the age of eleven, when his magician's act made him a sort of boy wonder in Henderson, Kentucky, his home town. Roughing it later as a minstrel end-man and a showboat entertainer, he departed the tinseled and shabby byways of trouping to enter the University of Kentucky. There he began a one-man show, starring Tom Riley, Pi Kappa Alpha. He produced student revuea, directed the university players, the Strollers; announced over WHAS. University of Kentucky station; and found time to go to movies and review them...
Citizen Candler dispatched the letter to postal authorities, mused: "I wonder if I could be the Duke de Biltmore and the Count de Coca Cola at the same time...
...great shaking of heads among college presidents has greeted news of higher taxes. Anything which taps private fortunes taps potential endowments, and the presidents wonder if the millions will ever roll in again as they did in the 1920s. Last week the Manhattan publicity firm of John Price Jones, Inc., which manages many a money-raising campaign, figured out what Depression has already cost 31 rich U. S. universities and colleges. From a high of $74,456,326 in the academic year 1930-31, gifts fell off to $20,657,891 in 1933-34. During that four-year period...
...larger division, the workers pity the butterflies, social, sporting or arty, and gape at the way they spend their time, while the butterflies hover contemptuously round the drone workers, and wonder what fun they...