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Word: wondered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often wonder if it's the weekly shipment of goodies that brings Brune Tiz and the of quoted Count de Wright down to Joe Neil's room. Then, of course, it might be the presence of Fred Trummer. By the way, Pine Island, Minnesota, bears the brunt of Freddie's ten day leaves...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/12/1944 | See Source »

...wonder if the Glendale, Calif, sky pilot has ever read Paul Leicester Ford's The True George Washington. Ford tells us that on provocation George Washington "swore like an angel." When do ministers swear, if ever? I suppose, in the privacy of their own homes, to the dog, the wife and the kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Boss of the job was handsome, 27-year-old Lieut. Colonel Edward A. Flanders, one of the top 10% in West Point's class of '40. When "Wonder Boy" Flanders arrived on Saipan, the invasion was only five days old and the battle still raged. Aslito Airfield, a 3,900-ft. Jap fighter strip, had been nailed down by U.S. forces only two days before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASES: Flanders' Fields | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...wish," concludes Emily, "to say good-naturedly that I have suffered a lot, and I often wonder in what cause." But unabashed Emily, now living in New York with her daughter, was making postwar plans to return to Major Boxer, who, she reports, plans to marry her as soon as he wins freedom from: 1) a Jap prison camp; 2) his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Very Personal History | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...Stettinius to be "front man." Ed began as vice chairman of the finance committee in 1934; by 1938, at the bright young age of 37, he followed Taylor as chairman of the board of giant U.S. Steel. He was now the industry's $100,000-a-year "wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Mr. Secretary Stettinius | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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