Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps so, but some voters might wonder if a gift for vitriol is a sufficient qualification for Vice President...
...movie made over is better than no movie at all, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. pretend to be vintage Chicago hipsters who rob the rich and give to the poor-though the poor slobs who can't share the fun without buying a ticket may wonder whether it isn't the other way around. The actors snap, their fingers at the plot, and Bing Crosby pops in from time to time as one Allen A. Dale, who reforms a roomful of rowdy orphans with a song called Don't Be a Do-Badder...
Fanciers of men's clothing may wonder who Hart, Schaffner and Marx really were. Well, late in the 19th century in Chicago, Max and Harry Hart, Joseph Schaffner and Marcus Marx pioneered as high-volume manufacturers of men's clothing ("One just price and just one price"). They brought out the first honest-to-goodness virgin-wool suits in 1900, and a tropical-weight suit in 1917. About the same time in Rochester, two other clothiers, Jeremiah Hickey and Jacob Freeman, were sewing up their own vested interests. Last week the two companies that these men founded joined...
...challenge Professor Harris' assertion that the average physician's income has crept up to "a current national average of $25,000 or more" [June 12]. For my colleagues' sake I could wish it were true, but I wonder if the professor has mixed up gross income with net income. Physicians in private practice have to pay office secretaries, nurses, rent, etc., often up to as much as 40% of their gross income...
...temblor. During World War II, Niigata suffered only minor U.S. air raids. On the August day in 1945 when the atom bomb was first dropped on Japan, Niigata was the alternate target in case of bad weather. But the skies that day had been clear over Hiroshima. Small wonder, Niigata was known as the "GoodLuck City...