Word: wonder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sunday, Aug. 24, 1873, pioneer Western Photographer William H. Jackson and his helpers clambered up the iced boulders of Colorado's wild Sawatch mountains with a bulky camera, primitive film, darkroom tent and developing chemicals to make the first photograph of a natural wonder: the Mountain of the Holy Cross. Jackson made thousands of other pictures, but Holy Cross was considered his masterpiece. Despite technical progress, the thousands of Holy Cross photographs made since never surpassed Jackson's famous picture. And none, it turned out last week, ever will...
...such an atmosphere it was small wonder last week that Ecclesia's free-swinging editorial was read over and over again and passed by word of mouth. Or that not one line about it appeared in any other Spanish paper...
What makes a good jet-fighter pilot? During the Korean war, U.S. Air Force commanders kept wondering why some jet pilots, with the same educational backgrounds and physical qualifications as others, were so outstandingly successful. The brass had good cause to wonder: of the 823 MIG-158 shot down by the Fifth Air Force, well over a third were bagged by an elite handful of 38 jet aces, representing only 5% of all the Air Force fighter pilots who saw combat...
...different. The disease has slid from first to ninth place among causes of U.S. deaths, and the rate has dropped to 16 per 100,000. There is a vaccine, BCG (Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin), which is fairly effective under some conditions. There are at least three wonder drugs-isoniazid, streptomycin & PAS-which can arrest a majority of TB infections, if not cure them. And with the aid of these drugs, daring surgery can save many patients...
...poison ivy sprouted furiously over most of the U.S., Ayerst Laboratories began distributing a protective cream, Kerodex, which has saved gangs of railroad section workers from the itch. For both prevention and treatment of ivy poisoning, the National Lead Co. was boosting Zotox, in which an oxide of the wonder metal zirconium neutralizes the irritating factor urushiol...