Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were married three weeks ago for $15 (minister: $5, license: $10). After reading "The Marriage-Go-Round" [June 16], we seriously wonder if for so little cost our marriage is legal...
...twelve "most awesome, brilliant, scholarly boys and girls being produced by U.S. colleges in 1961" [June 16], I notice that over half are planning careers involving college teaching. It is fine that such a proportion of these brilliant students plan lives of scholarship and academic service. What, I wonder, could we do to make such people interested in high school teaching...
...investigation. The municipal government, he pleaded, could clean up its own messes. "We were lax," he admitted privately. "We got so wrapped up in pushing our programs that we just assumed our civil service was fine." But in the welter of scandal that surrounded him, there was reason to wonder whether Dilworth could survive politically. As a reformer at the head of a sullied reform administration, he may have to stifle his ambition to become Governor of Pennsylvania next year and settle for private life in Philadelphia's swank Society Hill...
...understandable that you want to keep these treasures that you yourselves once imported from ever being exported. But in view of your export restrictions, there may be some among you who will wonder whether buying old masters in Zurich and New York is quite cricket. Insofar as you have closed your own market, should your museums take advantage of the open markets that remain...
...wonder was that the U.S. motorist still dared set foot in a car. In full-page magazine ads he was warned that unless he bought nylon tires, he dared not drive at high speeds. Leering down from billboards, other ads warned him that if he did buy nylon tires, his car would start shaking him up like a concrete mixer. Battling to supply the $300 million worth of reinforcing yarn used in the 105 million tires made each year in the U.S.. manufacturers of nylon and rayon cord were waging one of the bitterest and least restrained advertising campaigns...