Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amazement at the cram parlor's effrontery is only approached by wonder that the University has not cracked down on this particular crook and his colleagues. Here is simply another example of an implied disapproval of tutoring as it now exists, which Harvard is unwilling to bring into the open. Even now the Records Office makes it hard for the schools to get the lists on which they depend. So the University is opposing in practice what it backs in theory--the freedom of the student to make his choice between good and evil and every other set of alternatives...
...machine-like routine of Harvard. They are in need of conscientious guidance and aid in each course, they require individual treatment and consideration in the assignment of work. Instead they are here faced with an inordinately difficult course like History I; often with unfeeling automatons for instructor. Small wonder that the sirens from across the strait lure them...
...vigorously opposes the war referendum amendment proposed by Indiana's Representative Ludlow. She further says: "I wonder whether we have decided to hide behind neutrality? It is safe, perhaps, but I am not sure that it is always right to be safe...
Lilly Doche, swank Manhattan milliner, defended the present preposterousness of women's hats: "These are anxious times and conditions are disturbed, so it is no wonder that women go out and buy gayer hats than usual. ... To be attractive women should have what the French call esprit both inside and on top of their heads...
...Pikeville (pop. 3,376), in the drab, hilly, coal-mining country at Kentucky's eastern point, its First National Bank is a wonder that never pales. First National's employes, who start at $85 a month and get four-week vacations, try "to treat each customer as if he was their mother or father or sister or brother." All day every day, customers are entertained not only by the organ but by a 23-tube radio phonograph, playing in subdued tones requests ranging from Toscanini to Whiteman...