Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilots went into the cockpit and started to warm up the engines. "They had a pretty good lunch in there today," said Baker to Hensch. "It was fish, but it was good." They had a little informal conversation with the control tower. (British pilots are still lost in wonder at the informality of U.S. communications. One British pilot walks around Berlin shaking his head and telling everybody he overheard a U.S. airman on the strip say to his control tower, "Just give me the woid and I'll make like a boid.") Through the earphones came an efficient voice...
Last year it finally turned the corner. Says Vacuum's President John M. Fox: "Why, this orange juice thing is the wonder of the grocery world. Ask anybody." Anybody in the frozen food industry agreed-and Birds Eye, Snow Crop and others began to put out their own concentrate. Nevertheless, Vacuum's sales increased so much that President Fox announced last week that the net profit for its last fiscal year...
With several members of the Crusader eleven weighing over 250 and standing over 6 ft. 6 in. it was small wonder that Holy Cross was able to run through and around the smaller Crimson line, piling up 18 first downs to the Yardlings...
...aptitude as from the bottom ten, while almost all maladjustments come from the physically inept. The cynical believe that West Point's uniformly excellent athletic teams are a cause, rather than an effect, of the theory behind them, while heaven knows how many battered opponents have been left to wonder if their defeat wasn't perhaps the result of some deep-seated maladjustment...
Citation, the wonder horse, was rarin' to go, but his rider wasn't. Both were getting daily diathermy treatments; the horse for an old hip injury and Jockey Eddie Arcaro for a recent and painful dislocated shoulder. Muttered Eddie: "I can't hit a horse or anything." But rather than let another jockey ride Citation in last week's $25,000 Sysonby Mile at Belmont, Arcaro got a shot of novocaine in his lame shoulder and climbed aboard. If worst came to worst, he decided he could whip with his left hand...