Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killing 74 Army recruits and three crew members. The plane was owned by Imperial Airlines, a nonsked company in Miami, operating under contract with the U.S. Army. Last week, after a four-week investigation by the Civil Aeronautics Board into the possible cause of the crash, it seemed a wonder that Imperial's Constellation had got off the ground in the first place. Items...
...TOYS: The toy industry rakes in 60% of its billion-dollar-plus business in the Christmas season, and small wonder: most of last year's toys are rubble by now, thanks partly to a child's built-in facility for destruction and partly to the built-in destructibility of many modern toys. Electric trains, construction sets, Monopoly-style games, and books still have a worthy durability, never go out of style. Gilbert's old reliable Erector Sets now include the materials to build rocket launchers and satellite trackers. Scientific toys, regular catalogue items for four years...
...instinct-dominated brains do not resemble the brain of man; consequently, their customs have little bearing on human affairs. When Ardrey tries to draw human lessons from the property instincts and sex relationships of lions, antelopes, baboons, seals, monkeys and many other animals, he gets hopelessly mixed up. No wonder; he should not have tried. Each species has its special and widely differing customs, and seldom do they resemble the ways of social man. Perhaps the most important difference is that man, being completely dominant, has no significant enemies among other animals. This salient distinction colors everything that man does...
...Walked Around the World, by Benjamin Elkin (Childrens Press; $2.50)-bears the menacing label, "A Reading Laboratory Book," and offers "skill-builder words beyond the first thousand words for children's reading." Among the skill-builders are lad, lit, below, flew and top, which provoke wonder as to what the first thousand words could be and who counted them...
Pusey said yesterday that he had hoped to formulate ideas for the teaching of more modern languages at Harvard, but that his inquiries in the Far East only left him "more confused than ever." He noted that "in India, you see how many competing languages there are, and you wonder how many and which ones to choose which...