Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From dean's office to dormitory, people who knew Freshman John Robert Wagner at Cambridge's famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology began to wonder what had got into him. John, a good-looking, 18-year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award...
Ever since its founding by William James 80 years ago, the Psychological Laboratory has undergone continual expansion, and the process continues today. New experimental projects have been turned away from Memorial Hall for want of space, and members of the Psychology Department are beginning to wonder whether a major relocation of laboratory facilities will not be necessary in the near future...
...ANATOMY OF NATURE, by Andreas Feininger (168 pp.; Crown: $5.95).These pictures of a great photographer prove that the camera eye has better vision than the human eye. A celestial galaxy is caught, and a sense of vast mystery with it; a nautilus in cross section conveys the wonder of architecture in a simple skeleton. Technically remarkable...
...Wander. In Charleston, W. Va., arrested for petty larceny when police found her carrying a suitcase stuffed with four sheets, four pillow cases and two towels belonging to the DuPont Hotel shortly after she checked out, Nora May Miller burbled: "Why, I wonder how all that got there...
...greatest fault of modern education is the failure to develop the sense of wonder and awe which is "the beginning of faith," Abraham J. Heschel, Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary said last night in the final Israel Goldman Memorial Lecture...