Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Redding, Calif. last week, a $100,000,000 wonder of the world neared completion (84%). By the first of next year, months ahead of schedule, Shasta Dam will go to work...
...Value of Time. Wormwood, a youngster full of a youngster's appetites, is beside himself with joy as the war intensifies. His uncle, snarling at "your readiness to forget the main point in your immediate enjoyment of human suffering," warns him: "I sometimes wonder if you young fiends ... are not in some danger of becoming infected by the sentiments and values of the humans among whom you work. They, of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them...
Handwritten in noiseless offices, handset slowly during the evening, printed on flatbed presses, censored on the proof sheets after midnight, the Chungking papers with their vertical headlines and back-to-front pagination are a wonder to Westerners. The style of Chinese news writing ranges from crisp American formulas learned in U.S. schools of journalism to the elegant circumlocutory prose of Chinese tradition, in which the Japanese are always referred to as "dwarf bandits" and the loss of a city is conveyed by the announcement that "our troops have trapped the enemy at -, and are now surrounding...
...What," wonder the by-standers, "of the days when six bus-loads of Wellesley unloaded on Harvard's door-step for a dance...
They may well wonder whether it is a case of diminishing Yardling independence, or merely another instance of shifting Supply and Demand...