Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million to 60 million years ago). No one believes that such creatures actually live anywhere in the modern world, for one reason because its land areas have been too well explored. But the bottom of the sea has not been explored. Last week ichthyologists scratched their heads in wonder over completely authenticated reports of a fish, caught alive in December 1938, whose kind should have perished 50 million years...
...dream world which Dali has recorded is as specialized as it is vivid. Once a boy wonder at copying Vermeer and Leonardo, he discovered by self-analysis in Paris that he had a persecution complex (paranoia). His oil technique remains that of a brilliant, baleful Vermeer; his images are obsessive, malignant, and recur in painting after painting: unearthly shores and infinite plains, cliffs glowing with sunset, exhausted human profiles on flesh-blobs like stranded sea cows, attenuated human limbs held up by forked props and peduncles, shiny French telephones, lustrous big black ants. No. 1 criticism of Dali is that...
...Last week Representative Bruce Barton of Manhattan quoted the record to show that in six years the President had discovered "emergencies" or "crises" no less than 39 times, an average of every six weeks. "Is it any wonder," Mr. Barton demanded, "that the people are emotionally exhausted...
...sometimes wonder what the "townies" think of Harvard students? Or perhaps you don't know what a "townie" is. The definition is very simple; it's nothing you have to work on until 9 o'clock on Saturday nights. It's merely a native of Cambridge, in this particular instance a female...
...about time somebody told the House dance committees--in a nice way, of course--that they are engaged in a game of blindman's buff, and that their current policy is as much a source of wonder to the undergraduate body as it is a source of undue profit to the orchestras they employ...