Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toward the end of the meet, officials began to wonder what had become of George Kojac, Olympic backstroke champion in 1928. When he failed to appear, Olympic Coach Robert J. H. Kiphuth announced angrily: "Kojac is in hiding somewhere. He will be given no special consideration. . . . He is out." Presently George Kojac allowed his whereabouts to be known. He was working as counselor in a New York boys' camp, lacked funds to compete in this year's Olympics. The race he might have won, the 100-metre back stroke, went to 16-year-old Danny Zehr of Fort...
...nearby plane, made himself comfortable. The ship took off, set Dr. Speer down an hour & a half later in Columbus, Ohio. Good-natured officials of the airline (Transcontinental & Western Air) gave the bewildered doctor a free trip back to Pittsburgh (roundtrip fare: $21.60). The incident made some officials wonder if the line could not try "mystery excursions" similar to that of Great Northern Railway last week...
Publishers used to wonder how the St. Louis Times, least able of the city's four dailies, was kept alive. Founded 1907 by the German-American Press Association for St. Louis residents of German descent, the Times has been regarded as a consistent money-loser for a decade. Its latest circulation report was only 55,000. Last week the Times was bought by the noisy, up-&-coming Star (circ. 140,000), presumably for its nuisance value. The Star is published by Elzey Roberts, archfoe of Radio, whose father bought it in 1913. Few months ago Publisher Roberts boasted that...
Poetry is represented in this issue by a competent sonnet of Sherman Conrad's, and then by a thing called "Opening of A Long Poem (Maybe)" by James Agee. Over this entry the well laid schemes of apportionment went to pieces, and any editor might well wonder what to do with the remainder of a magazine which had decided to risk publication of Mr. Agee's opus. The poem is frankly an imitation--I will not say a copy--of Byron's "Don Juan", using the same verse form and employing the same tricks and devices...
...year-old man and an 18-year-old girl as well as in many youngsters. The young man is ''now a university student. His improved physical condition and whole aspect of life are so marked that old friends stop him on the street in wonder at the change. The girl's dexterity and confidence have so improved that she is now happily adjusted with her associates, and is a high school student." For children who cannot get to his clinic Dr. Carlson last week advised: "The ideal training for sufferers from intracranial birth injury would...