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Word: wonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovering the secret of the down-in-the-back hemline. Primarily a dressmaker, rather than dress seller, she amuses herself by studying the personality of unusual women, then designing costumes to suit them. Her greatest triumph has been with the Actress Spinelly, whose frocks are an annual Parisian wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Descending the Congo valley, last week, on their way back to the Atlantic, King Albert & Queen Elizabeth came, after passing the Mountains of the Moon, to the border of what is perhaps the Congo's greatest wonder: the "Pigmy Forest," also called the "Stanley Forest" and the "Great Forest of the Congo." Strong, hearty, cheerful, white men have not seldom emerged from a journey through the Pigmy Forest with hair turned white and mind temporarily unhinged by its stark terror. Darkness. The Great Forest is always dark. So prodigious is the foliage that even at high noon deep twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Majesties to Congo | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...such had been the case, he could not have suffered another, to cause his death, in May, 1928. More likely his attack of December was not yellow fever. It is not known whether he used his own-so-called vaccine upon himself; if he did, small wonder that he was not protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Agramonte v. Noguchi | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers' neglect of criminal practice and the insurgence of Crime itself. Retiring as president of the American Bar Association at last week's meeting in Seattle, was Silas Hardy Strawn, eminent resident of "the crime capital of the U. S.," Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Crime, Rex | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

That, of course, was a Ku Klux Klan demonstration as well as a Southern demonstration. Nevertheless, its sheer, insensate violence made people wonder how serious was the likelihood of many Southern Democrats splitting away from their Northern brethren over Nominee Smith this autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The South-Splitters | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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