Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit of wonder and adventure, the token of immortality, will be given to you as a child. May you keep it forever, with that in your heart which always seeks the gold beyond the rainbow, the pastures beyond the desert, the dawn beyond the sea, the light beyond the dark...
...time has long passed when instruction can be given purely by lectures-as the Moors after the conquest of Granada were baptized by sprinkling in crowds." He pioneered Harvard's individual tutorial system, which has been widely copied. But he was never satisfied. Long after he grumbled: "No wonder there is so much knowledge in colleges. The freshmen always bring in a little, and the seniors never take any away." Said he of I.Q. tests: "No good, no good-like trying to measure Tremont Street with a codfish...
With such deep cleavage in policy, it is no wonder that America ended the ten year period engaged, in a war for which she was woefully unprepared. But in the final analysis, the entire lack of unity, as explained by the embracing foreword, was based on the gap between the foresight of the Executive and the relative caution of popular opinion. As totalitarian brutality slowly converted the American public and molded it behind its Administration, American diplomacy began to ring with the note of determination. Finally, following Pearl Harbor, isolationism, in its original shape, died, and "Peace...
...twenty years since TIME began have seen so many changes in the world which TIME reports that we often wonder if TIME'S readers have changed, too. So every now and then we make a survey to find out just what kind of men and women our editors are writing TIME for at that particular moment...
...rich to worry about will be brought up with a jolt. April-The first robin will be reported in all New England States. The first baseball holdouts will be reported in all others. May-There will be a new ration card. June-[Ex]Senator Prentiss Brown will wonder why he ever took Henderson's job. November-Hitler will proclaim all the Russian armies annihilated...