Word: wonderfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to spend $53,000,000 to build Normandie, thought of her in terms of the 2½ million days of work she would give French unemployed, reckoned her advertising value as greater than that of any French creation since the Eiffel Tower was put up as a world wonder in 1889. Last week, however, Frenchmen, essentially thrifty, wanted to know what Normandie's operating profit is going to be, having long ago resigned themselves to the unlikelihood that she will earn satisfactory interest on the capital France has invested...
Every time I read a new lie about myself I wonder where did this one come from. Is it that the wish is father of the thought...
...fitness to enter into the broad field that the Freshman year is so properly becoming. Certainly some other standards than mere grades on College Boards must be selected. The problem is vital, and will take great pains to solve. In many ways it is a cause for wonder that with scholastic standards as diverse as they are in different sections of the United States there are not less misfits in each Freshmen class. That there are so few is a tribute to the Committee on Admissions, and to those faculty members who come into daily contact with Freshmen--though...
There must be many who wonder, as does Mr. Donham in his letter, "just what is wrong with Mr. Hearst, his news-reels, or his newspapers." In the eyes of many--all too many--the Hearst papers' greatest sin is their sensationalism. But the evil goes far deeper than mere lack of a sane perspective: and the realization that even intelligent men fail to appreciate the danger in Hearst's reporting, interpretation, and selection of news is arresting...
...have received several renewal blanks for our copies of FORTUNE, and wonder if there is something amiss...