Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noticed in your Dec. 12 issue two letters criticizing President Eisenhower's use of the pronoun "I." I often stand in amazement, and wonder just what keeps these disgruntled English teachers alive. These letters of criticism show bad taste and poor timing...
...wonder the average tariff rate on U.S. imports from Canada is low. These imports are mainly raw materials that are duty-free, or have low tariff rates because the U.S. requires them. However, the duty on Canadian manufactured goods is so high that they are prevented from competing with your domestic industries. Thus, since these goods do not become actual imports, their tariff rates do not enter your calculation...
...foremost city of the Renaissance. Cosimo's rule created for Florence an interval of peace and poise in which a man could aspire to make a balanced masterpiece of his life. As the outward expression of this, Cosimo set to work on a program to make Florence the wonder of Europe...
...Then Randolph needled the Kemsley Sunday Graphic for announcing, but never printing, a "revealing, exciting, touching" series called "Those Churchill Girls." The reason the series never saw print, suggested Randolph in the Spectator, lay in a telegram he had sent to Lord Kemsley (family name: Berry), reading in part: WONDER WHETHER I COULD HAVE YOUR COOPERATION FOR SERIES I AM PLANNING FOR "DAILY MIRROR" AND GLASGOW "DAILY RECORD" ENTITLED "THOSE BERRY GIRLS" . . . WARMEST REGARDS TO YOU AND ALL THE BERRY GIRLS...
...business has grown bigger and more complex, it has become increasingly hard for executives to make decisions individually; more and more they tend to rely on conferences. Now many businessmen wonder whether management-by-conference has not been carried too far. Says a New York executive: "They keep you so busy 'familiarizing' you with the 'problems of the other fellow' that you don't have time to solve your own." A manager of a big Eastern manufacturing plant guesses that he spends 65% of his time in conferences. How much of it is usefully spent...