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Word: wondered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinions and attitudes insinuated into your news stories are often so sensible and so contrary to the baloney the rest of the press serves us, that I wonder at your little swipes at Congress. Why do you pick on them so? They are only poor, dumb people like us, trying to get along, and working under difficult conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1944 | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...where fluorine exists in judicious quantities in soil and water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). They have seen movies of Ripley, Ont., which has so much natural fluorine that the dentists' chief occupation is holding citizens' mouths open to display their perfect teeth. These demonstrations make laymen wonder why experimental use of fluorine has been limited to a few small-scale ventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ten Years for Teeth | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...coming to Algiers directly from France assure me that these reports are bound to spread consternation and confusion in France and make people wonder what Allied plans regarding Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Confusion & Consternation | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Faculties, and particularly departments, without any control by competent educational dietitians, were encouraged to multiply the dishes on the steam table of the educational cafeteria. No wonder the helpless victims suffered all manner of educational dyspepsia and malnutrition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Following Whose Nose? | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Artist. Gladys Rockmore Davis, 43, is the ten-year wonder of U.S. art. It took her just that long to paint her way from a fashion illustrator to a top-flight easel painter with a reputation as "one of the very few American women artists who can paint a nude that does not resemble a Bonwit Teller manikin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ballet Backstage | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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