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Word: wondered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good industrial relations. This is a job, she shows clearly, that is never finished. It is not a question of setting up a good system and then just letting it run. Every day brings up new problems that must be settled in a spirit of tolerance and sympathy. No wonder Mary Gilson was good at this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKSHELF | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

Pacesetter at last Sunday's session, as at earlier ones, was saucer-eyed, head-bobbing, jelly-wristed Zutty Singleton, Negro drummer, pronounced the greatest of all time by French Expert Hugues Panassie. Baby-faced Artie Shapiro, once a child wonder at 16, slapped the bull fiddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam Session | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Last week the doctor and his wife, Jean H. Seligmann, produced the result of that experience: a sky-blue little book called The Wonder of Life (Simon & Schuster; $1.75). Since the pupils had a hand in it, the book is as fresh as a daisy, has no trace of talking down. At home Dr. Levine answers every question of his three-year-old daughter. But he does not try to burden her with all the facts of life. Since his book has a solid grounding in biology, and gives detailed sex information, Dr. Levine recommends it for children past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Telling the Children | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Kennedy: "I must admit I'm very much interested because it sounds very safe, but I wonder if I could buy it through my own broker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: From the Boiler Room | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Strange and wonderful are the premieres (pronounced "premiérs") of Hollywood: the trappings of publicity; the lights and decorations painting the gaudy lily of the Carthay Circle Theatre (where the big premieres are held); the pushing, stargazing crowds; the troops of real live stars ("I seen him! Didja see her?"). This week Manhattan sees a premiere stranger and more wonderful than any of Hollywood's. The celebrities present, the publicity, the lights on the marquee, may be lost in the blare and blaze of Broadway. But strangeness and wonder belong to the show itself. It is Walt Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Disney's Cinesymphony | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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