Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico "Oh, To Be in England" Sirs: I wonder if you have yet heard the story about the English schoolteacher who was testing the children on English poetry...
...case any of you may wonder why we did not on that occasion go in ourselves, I should perhaps mention that it is no part of a cruiser's job deliberately to seek action with a battleship at night. Incidentally, the reason was demonstrated in our favor a little later when our own battle fleet bumped into two enemy 8-inch gun cruisers and promptly crippled both. This provided another display of fireworks astern. At this time the events of the night after this are not yet wholly clear, but it is clear that both these cruisers were finished...
...more thorough job of evangelism, TIME asked ministers, religious editors, businessmen and politicians in each of the 22 cities for a frank appraisal of its achievements, especially in reaching the unreached, bringing the community back to the church, and making a lasting impression rather than a seven days' wonder...
...Romans from twin centers of the later empire. Their interest was in philosophy, literature, in the arcana of their craft, in their misfortunes and ailments (once Holmes slipped on a piece of ice, again Pollock was struck by a bicyclist), in Washington heat and London fog, in the wonder that returning spring has for aging men. The year the Japanese sank the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Pollock dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make you a Ding an sich...
Sometimes their subject was the universe. Wrote Holmes: "My formula as a bettabilitarian (one who thinks you can bet about it but not know) is a spontaneity taking an irrational pleasure in a moment of rational sequence. . . . Functioning is all there is. ... I wonder if cosmically an idea is any more important than the bowels...