Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vaguely of Russia. The relaxations are banal. The moneymaking is easy, and tiresome. The love affairs and divorces are equally casual. The French suffer from the delusion that the Third Republic is running Europe. They patronize the English, deplore U.S. blindness in keeping out of the League of Nations, wonder if a standing army of 650,000 will be too big. Some familiar characters appear...
...harry Franklin Roosevelt about a murderer. But gangbusting, a field he knows and loves, was what first attracted the admiring glances of voters in Dewey's direction. His hat is still not officially in the 1944 Presidential ring. But his careful buildup of this situation made politicos wonder whether Tom Dewey was more interested in getting Lepke or Franklin Roosevelt...
...Comets, an Aurora (Ill.) basketball team of 10-to 13-year-old boys, last week made basketballers' eyes pop. In a Y.M.C.A. tournament, they averaged a field goal every 27 seconds to smother another moppet five, the Fritzies, 106-to-1. Before experts could hail them as a wonder team of prodigies, the Comets next day plummeted to earth. Against another Y team of coevals, they lost...
...well of incredible notions. For more than 30 years fantasies have come in such profusion from his brain that there is hardly a modern invention he cannot claim to have anticipated. The father of pseudo-scientific fiction, he has started a number of pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, etc. As a radio magazine publisher, he has given laboratory workers some suggestive ideas. Gernsback himself has patented some 80 inventions, none of which, his admirers are proud to say, has ever proved of the slightest practical...
...across the lawn, greased the slide with beeswax, and sailed down it "at great speed and with wild howls of glee." Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Presidential Candidate Samuel J. Tilden tried it once when "both of them [were] rather well along in years." Says Author Hewitt: "It is a wonder that they were not hurt...