Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: If TIME'S own analysis of its circulation is accurate, the roster of Fierce-Arrow owners must be largely represented among TIME'S subscribers. I wonder how many of them, taking pride in their ownership, feel slighted because in a footnote TIME (Sept. 27) stated that a certain motor car- was reputed to be the most powerful stock car built in the United States, and gave its horsepower output as 92. Owners of Fierce-Arrow's larger car, the Dual-Valve Six, know that the Fierce-Arrow engine develops more than 100 horsepower. These owners must...
...Some criticisms and suggestions: Trustees. "They are often woe fully ignorant of even the pressing problems of their institutions. They employ officers and condone methods which they never would tolerate in their own enterprises. They inter fere in the conduct of business and meddle in professional matters and still wonder why their hospitals do not function efficiently and why they have difficulty in securing the right type of personnel. "The remedy is obvious but not always easily applied. Boards of trustees should determine policies and concern themselves chiefly in employing a great, competent executive who can be trusted to exercise...
...equally happy. Suddenly he will arise, to struggle manfully with a quotation from St. Thomas Aquinas, or to explain to a bewildered house what is meant by the theory of relativity. All these things Mr. Hutchinson has at his fingers' tips, so at least it seems. Little wonder then that he has been elected President of the Milton Society, the debating society of Christ's and Secretary (subsequently Vice-President) of the Union...
...shoddy rats and real geniuses alike. So Jack Jarnegan, the Hibernian superman of this story, becomes a great director and the cheap rats are drowned and smashed in torrents of abuse. It makes no polite fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood would stagger the Prophet. It is one of the coarsest stories since Rabelais but too terribly vivid, dramatic and shrewdly intense to be vulgar, save as Jarnegan was vulgar, to his sorrow...
These situations, which deal with national alignments, serve well to show how the methods of diplomacy continue the same. And rumor is as busy now as in 1914. It is a constant interest to watch the show and to wonder if there is any more charitable spirit abroad now than then; to decide whether the climax of these and future collaborations will be peace...