Word: wonderlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merit of the Wickard plan was that it would, end the Alice-in-Wonderland economics of cotton (TIME, Nov. 20), yet give the South ample time to put its economy in order. The plan's weakness was that, once subsidy payments are started, they will be hard if not politically impossible to stop...
...Calais as long as possible, soon turned up with his staff. They were smartly uniformed, but one officer had a wooden leg, another only one arm. Colonel Schroeder stiffly saluted his adversary. Said he, referring to the anomaly of a truce: "This is like something out of Alice in Wonderland...
...growth-promoting substance that made Alice in Wonderland's Alice shoot up through the treetops has been discovered at last. Drs. Herbert McLean Evans and Choh Hao Li of the University of California announced in last week's Science that they have isolated a few milligrams of it in pure form-not enough to practice on little girls with, but enough to practice on rats...
...Wonderland Week...
...cinch, because people cannot bear losing that much money) was "What is the most superfluous thing you could carry to Newcastle?" (Answer: coals.) Of the 20-odd categories of questions (movies, books, music, babies, etc.) which the contestants may choose, most people are afraid to tackle Alice in Wonderland. One reason may well be the $16 question: "What did the slithy toves do when it was brillig?" (Answer: gyred and gimbled...