Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Testament hymns such as the 'Magnificat' and the 'Gloria in Excelsis' sung by the entire congregation after some training. . . . The aim is not entertainment but worship: to teach hymns in which men hear the voice of the Eternal; hymns that awaken the spirit of 'wonder, love and praise'; that . . . drive out weak, shoddy, self-centered songs that too often are mere piffle...
...concluding the summary which he handed to Commissioner Dillon last night, Superintendent Gill wrote, "For more than three months an intensive effort was made by the Auditor to find everything. . . derogatory to Norfolk or the Superintendent. The most serious culmination of that effort is these thirty-six allegations. The wonder is that nothing more could be found to criticize in the planning, erection, and administration of a new prison, over such a long period of time." And, recalling what Gill has done to the sickly thirty-six, the intelligent citizenry will join in a hearty yea. Whatever the outcome...
...graft, then Charlie for one is not going to have any relations with that government. It will simply have to get along without him as best it can; for he is made of sterner stuff than most men and his principles mean something to him. And if some sceptics wonder rather audibly just what the hell they do mean to him, he can always point to his spotless moral life, and to the comparative poverty in which he lives as incontrovertible evidence of the rigid way in which he holds to these high aims. There can, in view...
...Montgomery and Miss Evans are adequate as the lovers, but Healy and company seem to have had a better opportunity for horse-play than the former had for love making on a big bouncing bus; we preferred the pure nonsense. We wonder why "Fugitive Lovers" was not a propaganda film against buses; it would really have been amusing to see twenty-four passengers quite dead after a two hundred mile trip with only a burly driver left to tell the tale...
...fellowship of learned men. Many of these treatises have received no circulation beyond the examining board and are composed merely to satisfy an academic whim. After casting a casual glance over titles of the obscure subjects upon which the academic aspirant must write, one is inclined to wonder if this really is a true indication of scholarship. Are tracts on scholastic minutiae essential, do they indicate which are the sheep and which the goats? Changing aspects of education and the requirements to satisfy its definition today, make one believe that the mere publication of some droning monograph on a miniscular...