Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last New Year's Eve the first contingent from the States-a dozen couples, four determined bachelors-arrived in Seward. They had been trained in code, meteorology, radio theory, air navigation. At Seward they boarded a train for Anchorage. They gazed with wonder at glaciers and snow-capped hills. They had fishing rods, guns, accordions, cameras; some of them had children...
...best recommendation of the Album of American History is that it is the sort of book children may study, with profit, by the hour, brooding over the diminutive figures in the crowd scenes, wondering at the pictures of surgical instruments and Indian massacres and delighting in the pictures of carpentering, whalefishing, rice planting. It may even lead their elders to look around them and wonder at the objects and the faces of their own time of danger...
...never had the price of a steak in your life. It's a wonder you never strained your shoulder digging into those garbage cans for your meals...
Sweden is as near to Germany as New York is to Boston-or Chicago to Detroit-so it is small wonder that there are so many people in Stockholm with firsthand news from the Reich...
...Marquess had ever done a day's work in his life. He said he'd been in the Army since finishing at Cambridge. Having been in France as a soldier once during this war, he said he expected to go again. That made the voters wonder where he would find the time for both statecraft and fighting, especially since his uncle-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Henry Hunloke, resigned the seat because of the pressure of war duties. They asked: "Can a Hartington do what a Hunloke cannot...