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Word: wonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organizers (viz. Raskob) about making claims of States or predictions of majorities. But he yields to no man as a writer of propaganda. In a bulletin which he composed last week he pictured Nominee Hoover as virtually the sole author of Coolidge Prosperity and the latter as a "world wonder." Money is what counts in an election but fine phrases help and James William Good knows it. It is very much like being an apostolic missionary. Sometimes you have to wrestle for a man's political soul for hours and hours. Sometimes you can win him in a trice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Midlands | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...time when citizens who want to vote, especially citizens who have never voted before, begin to wonder when and where they must register in order to vote in the Presidential election in November. Following is a list, State by State, date by date, showing where registration closes comparatively early. (In States not listed, voters may register up to the week before Election Day, or be sworn in at the polls on Nov. 6, or qualify by producing tax receipts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Registration Dates | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...TIME of July 16, a correspondent from Ohio says: "I wonder if Hoover has always held to the teachings of his Quaker fathers during all these years with the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...when they married. She may have been lovelier then, but it is hard telling from photographs (see Cut). She has always remained slim. Her Wolfgang was born in 1904, and her Hans in 1908. When strangers see Wolfgang and Hans with her, today, they sometimes wonder if she is not her sons' siren stepmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vivat Gustavus Rex! | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...several equally as brave if not as renowned men, but we must insist that Nobile is in no way responsible for Amundsen's predicament. . . . In view of such dirigible disasters as the Shenandoah. the Dismeale, the Roma and the R34 and especially the ZR-2, it is a wonder and marvel that the "Italia" stood up as it did buffeted by Arctic cyclones and blizzards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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