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Word: wondered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder the government regarded Henry as "an unsafe man" and consistently refused to promote him beyond a certain point. Much wonder that he was able to say, "When I sit in the garden in the cool of the evening ... I feel as if I never could go home. India has burnt itself into me and I dread the cold and wet country of my birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlighted Places | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Wonder If Women Would Mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-ed Exams, Lamont Draw Council's Nod | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...course I took when I came over covered two year's back work in five subjects (subjects he had not had here) with an oral and written exam in each for a final--but in English 1 it was not as hard as it sounds and one can only wonder at the amazing place that is Harvard--believe me, you'll never regret having gone there . . ." P. M. Reese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs, Rally, Key, Bring Comments | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

Capra made a few passes and presto! 1) much of Lindsay & Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...real wonder-workers turn out to be Lindsay & Grouse. It is a tribute to their skill that, even after all Hollywood has broken loose, State of the Union is still a mildly entertaining movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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