Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to TIME, April 28 [which reported that 17 out of 36 high-school students misspelled "thermometer"]: I wonder if our young students shouldn't really be complimented for no longer cooperating in wasting untold hours of valuable time in learning to spell with letters having no connection with the sound of the words. . . . More power to the students for having the courage to defy the old mossbacks by refusing to carry this senseless load any longer and thereby-we hope-start a movement for spelling reform...
...left to wonder . . . We have to reform our social habits, conquer our mental inertia, mercilessly throw away our pet customs and traditions before we can enjoy the fruits of science, before we can prepare against the growing dangers brought about by its constant unfoldings. Our airplanes . . . are supersonic, but our bodies are not yet supersonic. In such a world a dynamic, progressive, evolutionary, yet balanced, view of life is necessary for mankind...
...Warsaw, a weary postman who had marched all day reflected the enthusiasm of most Poles for the May Day festivities: "I wonder if the Government is going to pay for our shoe leather and for getting our varicose veins treated...
...retired Harvard professor, Philosopher Whitehead lives quietly in Cambridge, Mass., seeing only friends (and never the press),*reading history and philosophy, and recalling the past. On long London bus rides he used to amuse himself by imagining the great figures of history as his companions. He liked to wonder what they would think of what he saw about him. This week, in Whitehead's newly published Essays in Science and Philosophy (Philosophical Library; $4.75), readers will find this same sense of continuity and perspective...
Died. Dr. William Moulton Marston, 53, Manhattan psychologist and developer (1915) of the systolic (blood) pressure "Lie Detector"; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A man who never underestimated women, Marston wrote a successful comic strip called Wonder Woman (a sexy female counterpart of Superman); once announced that brunettes are more amorous than blondes; averred that in 1,000 years women would be running...