Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...development in this new branch of science that promises a revolution in the methods and accomplishment of every division of knowledge that deals with finite quantitative problems, from economic statistics to astronomy. Representatives of a dozen departments in the University are casting a longing eye toward this wonder worker in hope that they will soon be able to get quick, effortless answers to problems which heretofore have taken prohibitive amounts of time and energy...
Bikini explosion? Ha! . . . With artists like that loose, it's no wonder, and a good thing, the camera was invented...
...wonder about most wonder boys is whatever became of them. But no one in the magazine field has to ask what happened to Otis L. Wiese. Twenty years ago this week he was hired by McCall's as a cub assistant. A year later, at 23, he was editor, and took the floundering magazine and its 2,000,000 ladies by the hand. Last week they were still holding hands; the magazine had long stopped floundering and the ladies numbered...
...wonder-boy reputation and self-assurance, McCall's editor is a quiet, hard worker. He has a wife and four children, almost never consults his wife on the "woman's angle." He is certain that women need men to edit their magazines. Says he: "A woman has the courage to think for herself but not for other women. It takes a man to do that...
...were largely intramural and might have been recognized in a less ostentatious manner. Of the remaining three, the more recent works of one, at least, could hardly earn him a greater reputation than that of a Reader's Digest hack writer, leading the observer of such academic proceedings to wonder how much serious consideration is given prospective candidates for honorary degrees...