Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if TIME will grant me space to enter a protest to our ering radio commentators and correspondents. By ering, I refer to their continual use of the syllable "er" in their radio pronouncements...
Said Churchill: "I cannot recall any period in my long life when mismanagement and incompetence have brought us into greater danger ... In every quarter of the world we are regarded by our friends with anxiety, with wonder and pity; and by our enemies . . . with hostility or even contempt. . . Not one of them is so weak they cannot spare a quip or even a taunt for Britain. [Yet] we have but to cast away, by an effort of will, the enfeebling tendencies and fallacies of socialism . . ." Bevan and the other ministers who resigned had "rendered a public service," said Churchill...
Ever since the almost magical therapeutic properties of cortisone were recognized in 1948, one of the most extensive research programs in medical history has been aimed at finding a real supply of the new wonder drug. The only known way of producing it is through an intricate chemical process of 30-odd steps starting with cattle bile. And the yield is so small that several dozen head of cattle are needed to produce one average daily dose for one patient. But last week Harvard's Professor Robert B. Woodward announced that he had reached the first milestone...
...which words add up not to the expression of a theatrical verite but an unsubstantiated vagueness of feeling as "good" and "bad" about a show which normative without elaboration do nothing to educate audiences theatre wise and leave playwright, actor and producer to work out his own salvation and wonder why one play succeeds so admirably while another falls so completely with the result that the stature of critic has reached a new low; indeed a contemporary belief remains that there exists nothing creative about good criticism and that the foundation of success on the printing press depends on whether...
From all over the world, engineers flock to Milwaukee's famed A. O. Smith Corp. to goggle at a machine that is nearly two blocks long. It is the first "pushbutton" factory and, though built 30 years ago, it is still a mechanical wonder. Only 75 men operate the machine as its automatic arms drag in flat sheets of steel, shape, hammer and rivet them, pop them out as automobile frames at the rate...