Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regards Dr. Perl's [being] "sentimental and well-meaning," and Dr. Deutschman's condemnation of her "wholesale slaughter of infants," I cannot but wonder about Dr. Deutschman's pretentiousness in passing judgment on the doctor's morals . . . Presumably, it would have been a happier choice to put the mothers to death before the children were born, [or] should the camp authorities consent to exceptions ... to raise children with the prospects of starvation, medical experimentation, permanent physical and mental mutilation...
...folksier & folksier at every stop. In Ardmore, Okla., he yanked open a horse's mouth and stared at the animal's teeth. "Six years old," he cried. "Correct," said the horse's owner. At Lexington, in Kentucky's bluegrass country, he compared himself to the wonder horse, Citation, in predicting a homestretch victory. At Shelbyville, Ky., he talked about his ancestry: "My grandfather Truman ran off with Mary Jane Holmes and was married here in Shelbyville and lived . . . out here west of town...
...sidelight to the feature event at Ithaca between Art Valpey's wonder boys and the Big Red, the Varsity soccer team will play its second game of the season...
There is little chance that C.B. II will prove the perfect, all-purpose painkiller-or that any such wonder drug will ever be found. Pain is a complicated and mysterious thing. It is often dangerous not to feel it, for it is the body's alarm system. But pain sometimes rings the alarm so loudly and long that it upsets the body's whole balance. Some kinds of pain the doctors would like to reduce, some they would like to remove entirely...
...novels of the depression still worth reading. He joined the staff of TIME in 1935, and began his researches in Hawthorne in 1939 when, at the beginning of the war in Europe, he picked up Hawthorne's Our Old Home and reread it "with a sense of wonder . . . at the close application of his insights" into England. The present book (the first volume of two) ends with the fame and. security that came to Hawthorne in 1850, when he was 45, on the publication of The Scarlet Letter...