Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...public," said Professor Trowbridge, "is not generally interested in scientific experiments, but there is something so mysterious about the invisible rays that it is no wonder their interest has been aroused. The rays pass through boards, ebonite, thin metals, and penetrate the inmost parts of the body and yet they do not pass through a window pane...
What must have been his emotions? He came to bring them the Gospel and they thrust him out. Yet this is only typical of his general treatment. We find nothing but wonder and sorrow that they should so misjudge him. There is no trace of resentment, though...
...many revivals of once familiar operas that have been put on by the Castle Square Company, none has been brighter, breezier or more pleasing. It is getting to be too old a story to wonder at, how the members of the cast can keep up their standard week in and week out, singing every night, rehearsing every day, and yet put the vim into their work that they do. The chorus is equally deserving of praise in this respect, and one of the leading bits of last night's production was made by the girls in their recital of "Phoebe...
...said first that such remarks as this bear high testimony to the faithfulness of those now in charge at the post office. It has been a wonder to every one who has looked over the office that the work has been done anything like as well...
Contiuing he said that many persons would wonder that so late as one hundred and fifty years ago any man could have written such words against any Christian Church. It was not, however, as a religious body that the Roman Church appeared to the people of New England in 1750, but as a great ecclesiastical system which had acquired a marvelous power over men and kingdoms,- the body that had applauded Saint Bartholomew's Day and backed up Spain, England's inveterate enemy...