Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respires 100 to 200 times a minute, a cat 20 to 30 times, an adult human 16 to 24 times,* a horse 6 to 10 times. Miss Maclntyre breathes only 3 to 5 times a minute. In that respect she is phenomenal. Doctors read about her with wonder five years ago when she was a student at Mount Holyoke College. Only last week did the general public learn of her strange case...
Scientists 2,000 years hence who wonder about the evolution of dogs, will have but to go to Yale University's Peabody Museum and examine the bones of 200 canine generations which will then be on exhibition. Specimen dogs of the 79 recognized breeds will be mounted, put side by side with their skeletons for comparison. Leon Whitney, authority on genetics, is in charge of the collection and already has skulls of the black and tan, Newfoundland, Irish Wolfhound, and entire skeletons and skins of the Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, bloodhound. Latest arrival was Togo, a husky serum-courier...
...glamour which attended the naval festivities yesterday in Portsmouth has undoubtedly struck a note of wonder in the minds of the American public. For, to the tune of celebrating salutes, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams had the honor of christening a new giant submarine to be added to the nation's fleet. Marking one more step in the government's policy of defence, the occasion at once assumed national importance...
...What pleased me most was when Mike exclaimed: 'Gee, Miss Brown, you're not a bit like a teacher; you're so human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me for persuading him to go to Yale. . . . Before I came to high school, I taught in the grades. Each morning Ikey Stein brought me roses which he had gathered in the cemetery. Patsy O'Reilly presented me with three battered toothbrushes; his father was a garbage collector. . . . I banged...
Those Harvard lads who called the police when their bootlegger started suddenly to over-charge them are some how all wrong. Just when everyone begins to wonder if Harvard men aren't, after all, good guys, just after the Lampoon makes the scoop of years by filching the famous Yale fence, just when Princeton begins to feel a little sorry about it all, a few men destroy everything. Not that most of us haven't felt justified, from time to time, in having a bootlegger apprehended, but we somehow laugh...