Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poky to realize women by Petty are not only a No. 1 ware of you know what 50? magazine, but also the modern American Dream? Ask your nearest college boy for further details. And remember not to include out of succeeding columns on illustrators a mention of the airbrushed wonder of your days and mine-the Petty girl...
Professor William Lyon Phelps has been especially emphatic in his approval, saying "It is a wonder to me that nothing of this sort has been started before. There is a certain unity of sentiment among the three colleges that cannot be found in any other group of universities in this country...
Unfortunately for the visitors, this aeronautical wonder was too wonderful to be shown. Suave Dr. Lewis refused to say how much it would add to the speed of airplanes but it appeared the addition would be 20% to 30% over present design...
Considering such facts, many a businessman began last week to wonder what had happened to the talked of armament boom. Yet the U. S. armament program now calls for expenditures of $1,665,000,000 in the next fiscal (June to June) year. The nonappearance of a boom in spite of these expenditures was partly explained by the following facts...
...weeks ago rambunctious Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina introduced a resolution to send William Griffin abroad as a special envoy to remind European nations of their debts. Nobody paid much attention. Fortnight ago Congressman Chauncey W. Reed of Illinois introduced a concurrent resolution in the House. Washington wondered what it was all about, why a pressagent was needed to report William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington's wonder...