Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Various gentlemen in Company Baker who have felt the sting of H.T. Garvey's various talents are beginning to wonder where he spent his youth. First of all he picked out the handsome, robust and be mustached Wally Landis to spar with during those two weeks of boxing instruction...
...with burnt cork . . . That white hat which "Admiral" Colby wore while the plain folk marched in garrisons was not the manifestation of rugged individualism. He had misplaced the other job, and had nothing else to wear, it says here . . . thoughts while strolling, as the immortal McIntyre used to write--wonder when Bill Ingram is going to get that gap filled? . . . Altitudinal Donald Dennis has become the father of another baby girl. That makes two now . . . Arthur Bornfriend has quieted down considerably and hasn't time for billiards anymore. You shouldn't have to be told that he's a married...
Last week it looked as if Britain's Professor Alexander Fleming had discovered the greatest therapeutic drug of all time. Not since penicillin became a wonder drug in 1941 has it made such news. A jam-packed session of the American Public Health Association's meeting in Manhattan heard the Public Health Service's Dr. John F. Mahoney announce that penicillin had apparently cured four cases of early syphilis. The penicillin treatment lasted eight days. The standard treatment takes 18 months. (The one-and five-day treatments with artificial fever and drugs, though sometimes dramatic, are still...
...even a model to demonstrate. But by last week his big plant, built in a San Leandro cherry orchard, employed more than 1,300 workers and was the No. 1 U.S. producer of rotary calculators (as distinguished from the simpler key-driven types). And closemouthed Carl celebrated his wonder machine's tenth anniversary by giving out the nearest thing yet to a financial statement for his closed corporation...
...seemed slow, the gait of the runty ponies between the shafts of their carts dispirited. But at day's end, when a runway had been completed, a building put up or a force-landed plane fished bodily from a swamp, Americans saw the result and never lost the wonder of China's art in the use of sheer man power...