Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if anyone is more profoundly confused, in this century of profound confusion, than Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins is concerning the goals and functions of education...
...Wonder Weaver. A new loom that takes many of the kinks out of textile production and promises considerable savings in the industry was demonstrated by the Hunt Loom & Machine Works of Greenville, S.C. Using oil-impregnated bushings and nylon gears, the loom needs no lubrication, thus eliminates the oil and grease stains usually splattered by conventional looms, and has an overhead blower system that sucks up lint and fluff. With 55 fewer parts than an ordinary loom, it cuts the cost of replacing parts 70% (as much as $3,000 a week in a 2,000-loom mill), shaves...
...been necessarily overbalanced in the workers' minds by the leaders' evident success at raising the wage and work standards of the shipping industry. As long as the public was ignoring them, they felt, why should they not at least partly ignore the public's moral prohibitions? It is no wonder, then, that the Al of L should have such trouble shaking locals off the International Longshoreman's tree, for the present union leaders appear to the workers veritable Robin Hoods...
...goes sour, the brand man gets on the agency's back. If more production is needed, it is up to him to try to get it. And when a competing company puts out a product at a lower price or with a new "wonder" ingredient, P. & G.'s brand man must know about it and have a comeback. Broad company policy is set by Chairman Richard R. Deupree, McElroy and the other directors. But the big operating decisions are made by McElroy himself, and they are usually made with quick efficiency. McElroy belongs to the new breed...
...mood is continually jolted by meaningless digressions. Nonetheless, there are several scenes which draw their moral beauty to a point that pierces like anguish. There is the moment on the train when the father gives the boy his first present; the boy stares at it, his eyes immense with wonder; the father urges him to open it; the boy says simply, "I do aot care what is in it." There is, again, a moment of spiritual torture when the father, driving himself to prove that the boy is in fact his son, catches the boy lying because he already loves...