Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Average Man is now beloved and honored. When he is in uniform, Ernie Pyle and a host of other correspondents watch him, note his casual expressions, solicit his opinions, record his hopes and fears, marvel at his fortitude. When he is in civilian clothes, the public opinion polls eagerly tabulate his beliefs, his prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress...
...plague on this naive oh-ing and ah-ing about the democratic marvel of holding a national election in the midst of a war. At its best it is as suspicious as boasting about the virtue of one's wife. At its worst it implies that the Administration magnanimously granted a privilege when it permitted citizens to go to the polls...
Back in New York, bulletins were so few that studio broadcasters had to talk their throats dry. CBS News Chief Paul White plugged in his teletypewriter-lined news room, let listeners hear the buzz and bells that filled it. His ace Manhattan newscaster, Bob Trout, was a marvel of glibness and endurance. Trout's performance was matched by Robert St. John, backstop for NBC News Head, William Brooks. TIME Views the News, on the Blue was consistently cool and factual...
...sound waves brought in contact with any part of the head skeleton are conducted to the ear. That is one reason why people with dental fillings sometimes receive radio programs through their teeth and why some deaf people like to bite on their Sonotone earpieces now & then just to marvel at the racket...
Most Americans now 40 were still in their 20s when Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House; thousands of U.S. soldiers and sailors fighting around the world remember no other President. Yet associates still marvel at his Gargantuan appetite for work, his ability to relax in the midst of it, his endless gay optimism. As it has to everyone else, the strain of war has wrenched, strained and hacked at his basic traits of character. But in the President's case the grind has only polished what was already polished, only toughened what was already steel-strong...