Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those people who wonder why they have never been interviewed by a Gallup pollster, Gallup has worked out a mathematical answer: at 3,000 interviews a fortnight, it would take him 450 years to get around to everybody...
...Konrad's campaign had some surprises. It started with a whisper: "No wonder Czisch helps the refugees-he's a Jew!" It grew in volume with the use of a sound truck and another charge: "Czisch is a stooge of the Americans!" On election day Konrad won easily. That night, young men marched the streets of Schwäbisch-Gmünd singing the Horst Wessel song. They stoned the house of Franz Czisch, shouted: "Go to Palestine where you belong!" Then they stoned the windows of Jewish shops...
...news would be suppressed. At week's end General Clay said the directive had been misinterpreted: only private correspondence such as letters from Congressmen would be withheld. But even as he spoke, the Air Force threw a curtain of secrecy around its European operations. Correspondents were left to wonder: Who threw the mud in the goldfish bowl...
When one considers that all this fervor has developed within a year and a half, it gives cause for wonder as to whence it came and how it grew. Doubtless the June conventions and November election will break up many splinter groups at present backing favorite sons. But this is only one of the causes of Harvard's political renaissance. An equally basic cause lies in troubled international conditions which will certainly not die with November...
Just as political dopesters look forward to primary votes as guides to the future, those who wonder about the future of Harvard education are looking forward to a local vote scheduled for next month. The issue is tutorial; the locale, the Economics department; the date, the second Tuesday in May, when a meeting of the department will vote on the question of restoring tutorial to the field of Economics...