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Word: wondered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be wiser to put some of our good intentions into cold storage and wait for more favorable circumstance. I wonder if we are not attempting too much at present. I would advise patience-go slow. A little later it might be possible to solve these questions to a larger extent, if not completely. There is a temper in the world today which makes the solution of these questions almost impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOMIC AGE: Patience, Patience | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Walter Ong finds Wonder Woman sexy, but "this is not a healthy sex directed toward marriage and family life, but an antisocial sex, made as alluring as possible while its normal term in marriage is barred by the ground rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Are Comics Fascist? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

Last week Superman Inc. announced that it had bought Wonder Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Are Comics Fascist? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...wonder insecticide" that had millions of dollars worth of free advertising, is a very good insecticide. But it will not do everything. In too small quantities, it will not do anything. To eager manufacturers of bug sprays with "flagrant" claims, the Department of Agriculture has said sternly: label your products properly and give accurate directions. To the bug-plagued public, the department has offered some advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Careful with DDT | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

Although Americans may wonder why (Bob Hope, who was born in England, confesses: "It's too fast for me"), ITMA doubles up its British listeners. Puns like "Farewell to the night shifts of Dover" or "the lease lend the soonest mended" are a Handley trademark. So are topical quips like "I haven't laughed so much since Errol Flynn captured Burma." ITMA's rapid-fire cacophony of explosions, whistles, popguns, yawps, quacks and trambells draws enthusiastic letters from Continental listeners, who can't understand English, but find the sound effects screamingly funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: That Man | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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