Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after taking one look at the specimen called "Mr. America" [TIME, June 17], I wonder why they can't find something like this as a challenger for Joe Louis. If the muscle and brawn is as good as it looks and this is not just a puffball exposure, after the poor fight Conn put up ... this man looks as if he could revive the old glamor of boxing interest in a very short time...
...intent of one of the same gentlemen in allowing a girl from Boston in any decade to sway, skirtless, on a Bowery stage. Cambridge, at least, is not, and was never, like this. Durante is a mystery of sorts, too-but only in that it's a wonder he remains as funny as he does. As a matter of fact, the more you think about Durante, the more you feel that the movie is worth seeing for him at any cost...
...amidst the stately elms and maples, wandered into buildings they had not known for years, got lost in new ones, gaped at the excavation for the new library. On the ivied walls of Nassau Hall they hunted their class tablets, and in Memorial Hall a solemn few paused to wonder where the university would find room for the names of Princeton's 338 World War II dead...
Guess tennis is the best bet anyway--wonder why everybody has taken up rowing all of a sudden. Retrieving his roommate from the House library, Vag started off across the Charles. The courts were crowded with spectators, but there was an empty one nearby. "Can't play there," yelled an even younger official with a baseball cap, "that's for the team." Vag asked about the courts across the way. "Are you for credit?" asked the boy. "Then you'll have to wait your turn." "Well, this isn't the first time," offered Vag generously...
...Little Sitwells. That childhood was so sheltered, so beset with nurses, governesses, tutors and eccentric relatives, that it is no wonder the three little Sitwells, grown up, confuse heredity-"that fragile scarlet tree we all carry within us"-with an extraordinary environment. Edith as a girl was hung with corrective clamps and braces, including a nose-shaper, and was forced to swing herself dizzy on rings and parallel bars...