Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting fronts are fighting for a principle, that free men may continue to inherit the earth and live in peace and prosperity with their neighbors. These men will not sacrifice that principle for personal safety. Should others? I sometimes wonder if America's legislators, its labor leaders, its industrialists, its occasional absentee defense workers, its sometimes selfishly pleasure-seeking civilians ever realize that . . . their maintenance of a solid fighting home front is as important a cog on the wheel of success as those facing the dive-bombers...
That long hike across the River and back to Briggs is becoming old stuff to the WAVES who take in everything from boats and ball games and reviews to the NSCS tea dance. Several who strolled over for a late look-in on the affair Saturday were overheard to wonder why they didn't get there earlier. Some lucky girls did go early and were glad...
...There is Homer MacCauley, who pedals a bicycle for Postal Telegraph and learns about life (Saroyan life, that is) from veteran telegrapher Frank Morgan and manager James Craig. His little brother Ulysses (Ulysses and Homer live in Ithaca, Saroyan reminds us gently) is the inevitable Saroyan child, full of wonder and questions, very marvelous and just a little unbelievable...
...while there is a deft Saroyan touch which leaves you with that mellow, warm feeling inside. Such is the case when young Ulysses, frightened to terror by a figure in a store window, suddenly realizes the meaning of the word "afraid," and his face lights up in wonder with the new-gained knowledge, as the tears vanish. But when Brown, Estabrook, and Saroyan use their same technique on the philosophies of death and immortality, the effect is not the same. Saroyan's message, as simple as the child Ulysses, can't be spread on with a thick butter knife...
Didja hear Seth Grey open up in Management class the other day after being cooped up for three months? It's no wonder that guy who "came in" to one of Professor Masson's finance companies said, and we quote, "Atchoo." He must have been aghast at the fact that we spent so much time with your friend and mine, "Little Ordway" (a humorous remark, gentlemen...