Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I dipt into the future far as hu- man eye could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be. . . . Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federa- tion of the World...
...program, classifiable as a lesson in early organ music, leafs through representative compositions from the works of three generations of organisits--Sweelinck, Buxtehude, and J. S. Bach. Sweelinck, the wonder of his age, who toured Europe triumphantly performing on the organ and clavichord, has long been relegated to a musty pigeonhole in the history of music. Musicologists credit him with having been the first organist to use the pedal independently, as a separate voice in a fugue, Sweelinck's own editors claim for him the distinction of having "founded" instrumental music, but rarely if ever is his fine body...
...help but wonder, where does all that opium, which so successfully dulls our pains and paralyzes our will power, where does that same drug which has doped so many other peoples into slavery come from...
...wonder was not the size of such excesses, but the fact that Tupper's questionnaires turned up any excesses at all. Among themselves, businessmen talk frankly of inventories they are hiding from the Government. They have also done a lot of inventory-ruining: processing their raw materials just enough (boring a few holes in steel sheets, etc.) to spoil them for allocations purposes, although they are not ready to use them themselves. Such stocks do not show up in Mr. Tupper's figures...
Last week Robinson kept his promise. On his toes like a ballet dancer, he out-stepped and outsmarted foxy Fritzie, tantalized him with lightning-quick punches from unexpected angles, landed one in the fifth round that nearly chalked up his 21st knockout in 26 pro fights. The new Negro wonder can hit equally hard with either hand, can throw a punch faster than Joe Louis...