Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are many different curved surfaces which an architect might wish to use in a building, and no single quality of the hyperbolic paraboloid is unique. One might naturally wonder why this surface should be any better than some other of a slightly different but equally pleasing shape...
...beverage service, free coffee, a "Glamorama Room" with physical therapist, body-building equipment and steam room. Says Owner Nick Bebek Jr.: "These women start to take inches off their behinds, build their bust up two inches. They go insane! Then their complexions start to get clearer and they wonder why, and then they realize it's from the steam room melting off all that junk they put on their faces. They love...
Antibiotics effectively attack most bacteria, but in fighting disease-causing pests that are smaller than bacteria-chiefly the viruses-the wonder drugs have chalked up a record of failure. Last week, concluding a series of three articles in the A.M.A. Journal, a group of Navy doctors reported on an antibiotic that works well against what seems to be a form of virus disease. The antibiotic is Declomycin, a close relative to aureomycin. The disease is viral pneumonia...
Coffee, which accounted for 19% of their total sales last year, is still the vending operators' most profitable item, and some of them occasionally wonder why they ever pushed on into food vending. Says Wolff: "Installing a coffee machine is a fairly simple operation, but when you start vending rolls to go with the coffee, you are already in trouble." Most vendors, however, believe that solving the costly problems of hot food selling is only a matter of time. Wolff's Interstate is currently testing a quick-cook process designed to heat a complete frozen meal...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a bright musicomedy spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mount Rushmore's stone faces...