Word: wondrously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pocahontas (now a semi-prisoner in Jamestown) fell in love and were allowed to marry, since that would give the settlement a permanent hostage against Powhatan. After several backbreaking, productive years, Rolfe had made enough profit to go to England for a vacation. There at last Pocahontas saw the wondrous sights John Smith had told her of; and there she saw again John Smith, a middleaged, broken failure. Spoiled for her native life, she dreaded going back to Virginia. But civilization and London fogs had given her a cough that saved her: as the ship moved slowly down the Thames...
Despite these culminations of the great pipe dreams of 1929 and early 1930, last week there was by no means the same interest in pipelines. The public seemed inclined to await results before it increases its stakes in the industry. And no more was heard about such wondrous projects as a pipeline to carry grain, another to transport pulverized coal, a third to gush milk into big cities...
...motion of censure was snowed under by 214 Kemalist votes, but on thinking the whole matter over Dictator Kemal must have wondered whether the idea of even a ten-deputy opposition was such a good one after all. In Turkey the will of the dictator is communicated by means wondrous, swift and silent. Those who cross it are sometimes found hanged to their own doorposts at dawn. Bright and early on the morn after the vote, Leader Fethi called upon "The Modernizer," informed him that overnight the opposition party had dissolved...