Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...careful, scientific study on 159 sniffling children, victims of the common cold, told last week what they found to be the best treatment. Grandma and the horse & buggy doctor were right, they concluded. The most effective answer is bed rest, with plenty of fluids and maybe aspirin; the modern wonder drugs do more harm than good...
...been CRIMSON policy to protect its correspondents from recrimination, the author might be excused for not signing his name. I suggest, however, that a man who submits to the fear of recrimination is in no position to recommend action. Unsigned words, to my mind, have little effect. I wonder what might have been the course of history had the names been withhold by request from the Declaration of Independence...
...cover all cost increases from the beginning of the Korean war to July 26, 1951) shot price ceilings full of holes and aroused the wrath of the Truman Administration. Harry Truman said it was "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake." Little wonder, then, that Capitol Hill was startled this year when Bulldozer Capehart proposed that Congress give the President power to freeze wages, prices and rents for 90 days in case of a "grave national emergency...
...humane principle, but to favor anti-social members of their own party like the Rosenbergs. Before the Civil War, slavery abolitionists also favored capital punishment abolition, and their belligerence convinced many that they would abolish the structure of society as well if given the opportunity. It is no wonder then that opponents of capital punishment are at times suspect in the public mind...
...Margayya is vastly rich: the money lies stacked in piles throughout his house. He becomes a specialist on the subject of interest on capital, which seems to him "the greatest wonder of creation, [combining] the mystery of birth and multiplication." All goes well, except that his only son, once a charming little fellow, now becomes sullen and spoiled. Egged on by the worthless Dr. Pal, the boy tries to get more & more money from Margayya; when Margayya resists, Dr. Pal spreads a rumor that Margayya is a fraud. In a matter of hours, the bank is bankrupt...