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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber mouse attached to the cord attached to the curtain on the easel (TIME, Dec. 17)Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen's unofficial name is Duke. Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black Lucason, Sealyham Gunside Babs of Hollybourne and Pomeranian Wonder Son, Judge Alfred B. Maclay ordered Duke and Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge's fine white-&-liver pointer Nancolleth Marquis to trot around the ring again. He had them pose once more and then gave first prize-a rosette and a silver bowl-to Duke's owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Duke v. Marquis | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...such as the one Germany passed through after the war, even a small investor would suffer. If he owned a gold ring worth a little over a mark, he would make a mark profit of over a trillion marks, on which he would have to pay the tax. No wonder the threat of inflation scares American property-holders and forms a definite deterrent to recovery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPITAL GAINS TAX | 2/16/1935 | See Source »

...wonder, when his regular interviews are as useless as this, that the student does not think of going to his dean for advice which he is, of all others, ablest to give. All this is a result of treating intelligent men like cogs in a communist bureaucracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTOMATONS OR MEN | 2/12/1935 | See Source »

...average citizen. Mr. Roosevelt later said that the average veteran dies without any asset other than his Adjusted Service Certificate. Was he mistaken? Did he mean the American Veterans Association, perhaps? Or did he believe that the 85% mentioned are not members of the American Legion? I wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1935 | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...rides like a centaur, drives like a state policeman. He did his bit in the War ("We had slept with our windows open that hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero. It is small wonder that Julie falls in love with him at sight. Conscious of the fact that she is "not a lady," that she has a far-off husband with whom she does not get along, a precarious job as a style-illustrator, she begins writing him love-letters even before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daydream | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

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