Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...getting all the "national honor" that comes from the publications; and of course she deserves it, as long as she is the only institution that offers such advantages to writers. It is, however, to be regretted that other institutions do not move in the same path. And we wonder that Harvard does not seek after some of this "national fame" which has so deservedly come to Johns Hopkins. If Harvard undertook to publish the meritorious works of her graduates, there can be no doubt that those Harvard men, who have hitherto gone to Johns Hopkins with their writings, would gladly...
...wonder, in view of these facts, that the microscope received much attention, and as early as the first part of the seventeenth century the "compound microscope" was invented. Henceforth the progress of the instrument was that of mechanical skill and scientific knowledge. The establishing of the theory of Achromatics, late in the last century, brought the microscope rapidly forward, and the date of 1807 finds us with an "a chromatic microscope," embracing all the main features of the present instrument...
...last number of the Police Gazette contains a cut of the now famous "Winchester-Winged Wonder" and his companions on their walk to Worcester...
...faults in some one else, he is also able to write perfect English himself and avoid all the defects and blemishes he has seen in another. No one will deny that our English department, taken as a whole, is conducted with ability - and understanding, yet no one can reasonably wonder if the members of a class demur at writing criticism after criticism, when they have been led to suppose, by the experience of the leading writers, past and present, that criticism is a secondary matter, and that the critical writer is by no means necessarily a respectable descriptive writer...
...least so much of the world as is contained within the walls of Memorial; in direct opposition to all the behests of reason, boldly attempts, not only to make time wait but also to go back and retrace his steps, is it a matter of surprise that wonder and amazement fall upon all beholders...