Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder how many of your readers caught you . . . "stargazing" on the People page of April...
...force. After he goes off duty each evening, he reports for work at the China Pheasant. By closing time (5 a.m.), Humes has usually lifted at least one drunk (white or colored) well above the floor and carried him into the street. Humes says he does not often wonder whether it's all worth it. But when he does, he thinks of his wife and of the new baby she is expecting. If that doesn't help, he prays...
...youngsters was electric. They gaped at the Japanese grade-scholars' craftsmanship, were surprised at how much the kids in the pictures looked like themselves. "Why, these don't seem foreign at all," said one nine-year-old. "They look like my friends." But they did wonder why there were no blond children in Japan, and wished they could read the Japanese writing in the pictures...
When it was first tested, the newest TB "wonder" drug, isoniazid (TIME, March 3, 1952), seemed just what the doctor ordered. But cautious physicians withheld their verdict; too many promising drugs had already turned into disappointing failures. As reports on isoniazid piled up, doctors began to suspect trouble. They observed that some strains of tubercle bacilli quickly learned to live with the drug, and they worried lest the new bacilli lead to varieties of TB that might be harder than ever to cure...
There were plenty of individual exceptions to the general rise. Price-cutting in the "wonder drugs" and heavy criticism of Chloromycetin drove Parke Davis' net down 57% (to $2,200,000), and further inroads on coal's markets by oil and gas drove Pittsburgh Consolidation's net down...