Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have always considered Elwyn something of a boor, and in this case, he lived up to our estimation of him. He began to wonder just what his was all about. He performed a simple arithmetic computation. He multiplied the $6 by the 2300 Bowser students and discovered that they were contributing $13,300 per year for the maintenance of the Student Club. He protested...
...seniors have been taking quite a ribbing thus far for our sterling performance in Supply. After hearing the official answers to some of the quiz questions and remembering what we put down we can only wonder that we are still permitted to take the course. By the time this appears we will be on the verge of what may be the final reckoning in Supply...
...conversion of Sir Oliver Lodge also moved Sir Max Beerbohm to draw one of his funniest imaginary confrontations, in which Convert Lodge and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, a British skeptic about spiritualism, look at each other and wonder at an ectoplasmic enigma...
...week. A U.S. Army band (the 418th Army Air Forces Band from the Technical School at Yale) had suddenly, and disconcertingly, got rhythm. When it swung down the line blaring such hallowed items as John Philip Sousa's Stars & Stripes Forever in jive tempo, sober listeners began to wonder what U.S. brass-band music was coming to. Obviously, there was an Afro-Saxon in the woodpile...
Watch on the Rhine (Warner) is Lillian Hellman's successful anti-Nazi play without a Nazi in it,* transferred almost bodily to celluloid. That play and film are alike as two swastikas is small wonder...