Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Station. As he slumped in his seat, the last few breaths of life seemed to wheeze slowly in and out of his lungs. He had aged tremendously. His hands shook, and even when he spoke to the conductor, his voice whispered from a far away corner. It was no wonder that the N.Y., N.H. & H. hostess in her gray and red uniform led him forth from his seat like the Pied Piper with the magic words: "Grill Car in the rear...
Knowing the feeling of the Crimson on the elections questions, I thought that it would welcome a referendum, to settle the problem according to the wishes of the class itself. Now, I am tempted to wonder whether the Crimson's opposition to the referendum was not due to a fear--how wellfounded I don't know--that too few Freshmen really agree with the Crimson. James Tobin '39, Member of the Student Council...
...little wonder then that townspeople are likely to resent the criticism of their governments by gownpeople. True, college faculty members are not guilty of the same outrages students have perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...
...years millions of U. S. citizens, to whom Hearst has been an institution as well as a legendary figure, have wondered what would happen to the institution when William Randolph Hearst was no more. Of late they have ceased to wonder, have realized that the institution has already started breaking up before their eyes. Since Mr. Hearst abdicated two years ago, six Hearst newspapers, one news service and one magazine have been sold or scrapped; Hearst radio stations cut from ten to three; rare Hearst treasures have been knocked down for $708,846; the value of all Hearst properties, estimated...
...wonder if you realized the widespread implications of your editorial of February 27 concerning the latent dangers to our cultural growth resulting from the increased use of that "newfangled" idea: the electric razor. Your stand represents the eternal stand of the narrow-minded reactionary...