Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder whether this defense of O'Hara has anything to do with the lie he has spread that he is a Harvard...
Basic theory of New Deal economy has been that the Federal Government should spend in lean years, save in fat ones. Last week, while many another U. S. citizen had begun to wonder whether the country was on the verge of a major business slump, the President made it clear by his saving intentions that he finally felt that the lean years were over. The week began with a new budget estimate showing a net deficit of $695,000,000 for fiscal 1938, $277,000,000 more than had been estimated last April (see p. 19). During the rest...
...night last week so impatient for the Philadelphia Symphony to give him his cues that he beat time with clenched fists. When his cues came, he played with such sympathy and taste that the audience stormed applause, the gentle critics went home to praise unreservedly an outstanding young wonder, Julius ("Buddy") Katchen, II. Prodigy Katchen had been "discovered" by Conductor Eugene Ormandy (who himself made his debut at 7), had been given a preliminary hearing before the Philadelphia Orchestra Club, recently organized to stimulate youthful interest in the city's music...
...City was put straight, through not before one of the leaders, a man well known in the District attorney's Office, had been murdered in his downtown hideaway. Of the 73 men brought to trial for such activities, Mr. Dewey has convicted 72, and it is little wonder that the Tammany ticket fears to see him gain the office of District attorney under LaGuardia, where his investigations may be even more devastating than before...
...watched," he later wrote, "I began to wonder how the world must appear to a ladybug: what the sensation would be if my six feet of height dwindled down and down until I was hardly a quarter of an inch long; if I shrank to a thousandth, a ten-thousandth ... a millionth of my present bulk. Like Alice, I began to feel I was 'shutting up like a telescope...