Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot but wonder what your idea was in publishing [Oct. 22] on page 10, under "Prohibition," a likeness of one John Becak, Manhattan wagon driver for the morgue. Who among TIME subscribers cares what a wagon driver for the morgue looks like? Do you call this "news"? I certainly...
...often wonder what...
Compassion and consideration should always be shown to those who are still religious. Personally I like to pretend that I have lost all contact with religion, and then sometimes I wonder...
...woman they wouldn't like in South Bend. While the camera turns its solemn eye and ear on the declamations and gestures of Richard Bennett and Doris Kenyon, the spectators, distracted by the jerky sequences, annoyed by the enormous metallic voices issuing from the vitaphone, are left to wonder what sounds even a perfected mechanism could produce which would equal the beautiful silence of oldfashioned cinemas...
...have often envied you, men of Harvard. Walking guard up and down a gravel path at 3 o'clock on a summer's morning has sometimes caused us to wonder why we chose the military academy to a civilian institution. Bells ringing and bugles blowing with unceasing regularity make us sometimes wish that we had chosen the "dorms" of John Harvard to the barracks of West Point. Studying five or six hours a day for recitations makes us wish that we had the lecture courses of Harvard to attend. Leading the almost-convent-like existence of Cadets, we sometimes with...