Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in the University have been privileged to attend Pasadena's great yearly festival, "The Tournament of Roses." Many do not realize the wonder and the beauty of the event at which the University football team is to take a leading part. In some respects this great "American Riviera" resembles the "Battle of Flowers" hold at Nice, France, at which many of the American soldiers were present last year...
...wonder is that there are still some men in college who have not joined, This meeting tonight must convince of their folly those who still have doubts as to the advisability of membership. The Union can no longer be ignored. It has re-created for itself a vital place in college affairs...
...Walpole then went on to say something of the literary London of prewar days. "Henry James was the one man in London who changed the whole trend of English novel writing" said Mr. Walpole. "Mr. James made people wonder whether the things about which they were writing were worth while...
...believe Harvard has no bowling team, and I wonder why. Bowling is broadly popular and especially good exercise, and as Harvard is wisely trying to have as many different kinds of athletic teams as may be, it would seem desirable to stimulate bowling by having an official team, and secondary teams...
Having heard so much lately the use of the word "soviet," I decided to look it up and find out its meaning. I was rather surprised to find that it meant nothing more than "committee," and I wondered why it had never been applied to our Congressional manner of doing business. Another translation of the word, making it mean "conference," made me wonder why, since they use the word so freely, the Boston "Transcript" and the New York "Times" do not speak of our present Industrial Soviet at Washington. Perhaps the word is reserved for those conferences or councils which...