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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always been a source of wonder to me that students whose future material welfare depends almost entirely on the course taken by our government in the matters of business regulation, foreign trade relations, etc., could so thoroughly divorce themselves from any interest in their government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Path of Duty | 11/2/1932 | See Source »

...Sometimes I wonder," continued bantering Herriot, "which of them is going to die or whether it will be both or whether it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Herriot a Mother | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...read the last copy of TIME, which was forwarded to me, on the slope of a heather-clad mountain. When I had finished it I buried it among the ling. [Note: Not the edible cod-like fish, but another word for heather.] I wonder what will spring from that spot! Yours till time shall be no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...reader may also wonder why Poet Benét likes such stumbling-block words as: corsive, accipitrine. mort. On the whole he will probably find Rip Tide moving, though more pathetic than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novel in Verse | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Grief-stricken Jean Harlow had cause to wonder whether her career in cinema would be destroyed. But without Jean Harlow, work on her new film could not proceed for long. A week after Paul Bern's death, she made herself up as a "siren," went to work in Red Dust, an Indo-Chinese film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Death in Hollywood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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