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Word: wondered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harrison earnestly hoped "this kind of bartering and sale" would not go through; that people would not be led to wonder if there was "any trade in the air" between Republicans and "progressives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Republican National Committeemen arrived in Washington for their first real caucus of the 1928 campaign. Some of them were said to have heard President Coolidge say: "I wonder who could beat 'Al' Smith if I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

Life's Centre Spread: A rooftop. Smoke from the chimneys. Two chil- dren, their clothes blown by the wind, gazing upward. Riding across the sky Santa Claus, cracking his whip over reindeer. Caption: "I Wonder If It's Another Non-Stop Flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joke for Joke | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil and the Methodist Church to controvert the rights of American citizens; but one is permitted to wonder what statistics and horrible examples will be added to the phenomena of contemporary life in a pamphlet war for the conversion and diversion of the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCHUS DEPLOYED | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...compatible with direct censure of a "Big Bill" Thompson; but the direction of Sir Esme's lance was evident when he commenced to tilt, thus: "We have heard so much lately from another place of the danger of British propaganda in this country that I was beginning to wonder whether the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers gathered here to celebrate the landing of their ancestors at Plymouth might not have feared that the presence of the British Ambassador tonight might bring with it some dread infection of the terrible disease known an Anglo-American friendship. It is, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme Speaks | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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