Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they can see but whose purpose they can't imagine...
...Sirs: I wonder if John L. Ulmer (TIME, April 27) knows what he is talking about [in a letter saying, "If these people (the Japs) were allowed to go about their business as honorable, law-abiding Americans, no doubt the majority would behave as such."] In Alaska a couple of well-respected and honorable Jap-Americans proved that they were capable of "knifing in the back" the land of their adoption...
What with the radio communications officers, the new Freshmen, the Crufters, and the Summer School students flowing into Harvard, the percentage of those around the Yard who wonder which is Sever, and where Widener is has increased mightily. So it seemed perfectly natural to Kenneth Conant, professor of Architecture, when he saw two middle-aged women walking under the elms, to ask if he might direct them somewhere...
...Pardon me," he said, "you look bewildered. I've been here for a long time, and I wonder if I can help you?" But his gentlemanly courtesy was unnecessary, for one of the ladies was Mrs. Madeleine Sullivan, a director of the University Information Service, who has been guiding "bewildered" people around Harvard for over three years...
...been reported that the British were superior in equipment, perhaps even in numbers. Observers have said that British offense was also slow and delayed, with all punches pulled; that whenever Rommel was on the verge of defeat, he was suddenly let alone. The question was always, "I wonder where Rommel will strike next?" and never, "Where will we strike Rommel next?" But whether or not this was so, months of effort in Libya have been lost, as well as the opportunity to close the battle for Britain's life line...