Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have noticed no follow-up story on this matter, and wonder if this unjust condition is being duly righted, or whether the powers that be have managed to squash the upstart and his fearless judge...
Sirs: M. Zimmer's clock (TIME, Aug. 29) is indeed a wonder, if, as appears from the cut on p. 26, it will run for 26,000 years upside down. Perhaps this is an example of American showmanship-perhaps TIME is trying to test the credulity of its readers...
...time thinking up a way to make some money. Rubbing his stubby beard, he hit on the idea of a mechanical shaver. But Schick electric shavers did not appear on the market until 1931, and these first hand-made models sold at $25. Many a man began to wonder how he had got along without one. When Schicks later went on a mechanical assembly line, the price was cut to $15. Not long thereafter hundreds of thousands of men either had bought the shiny new gadgets or had begun saving their pennies toward that optimum goal. By that time, Schick...
When the latest and most successful reincarnation of this popular character last week placed on trial a leader of the most ill-famed U. S. political machine, small wonder that Western Union alone filed 40,000 words to the newspapers of the U. S. on the opening...
Some of these first editions, of which only one or two copies have turned up, are now the rarest U. S. books: The Wonder fid Wizard of Oz (1900), Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick (1868), Little Prudy (1864), The Wide, Wide World (1851), Elsie Dinsmore (1867). A complete collection of first editions listed by Editor Blanck would be worth approximately...