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Word: wondered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barbi addressed the priest: "Up to your political tricks again! You want the clock to be in the old Fascist position. No wonder. Black is the color of Fascism, and you are always dressed in black." Cried Gallo: "Red is the color of blood!" According to the minutes of the leftist recording secretary: "The priest was glib as usual." Asked he: "Was Garibaldi a Communist?" There was a general leftist cry: "Respect the color of Garibaldi's red shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Norris' time over the approximately four-mile long course was 1 hour 25 minutes 10 seconds, three minutes better than his nearest rival. It is better by 11 seconds than the time posted by Jimmy McLane over the same course in 1945. This race, incidentally, lifted the Andover boy wonder into international prominence two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmer Wins AAU Crown Despite Crippled Leg | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

...wonder why Harvard...does not show a little realism and establish courses in practical political, where able young men from all walks of life could learn such essential details as how to raise money, conduct campaigns, get elected and stay elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course for Politicos Called for in Editorial by Cambridge Newspaper | 8/21/1947 | See Source »

...those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia's top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi's simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tin Pan Laureate | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Box-Office Doldrums (Cont'd) | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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