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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder if you would be good enough to make a suitable retraction, in view of the fact that because of the proceedings before the FCC to which your article referred, such a disparaging remark will have a very important bearing on the future of my business, which, in spite of all your correspondent may have led you to believe, is considered by me to be an honorable business from which I take both pride and profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...always green and many flowers are still in bloom and the air is brisk and healthy and noses are cold and red. And so here I sit in my room (nearly the size of the Dunster Common Room) with only a small coal fire for heat. It is no wonder that I'm wrapped up in an automobile blanket and an umbrella over my left shoulder. No, there's not a leak (I' m not on the top floor) but there is a penetrating draft which comes first from the left and then from my back and overhead...

Author: By Christopher Janus, Former STUDENT Vagabond, and Now AT Wadham college., S | Title: The Oxford Letter | 2/13/1937 | See Source »

Jackson says when he Telemarks of midyears he Packetts the winner every time. Creepers what a guy! But I just wonder what Zinsmarks are anyway...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey and On Pro, (SPECIAL WIRE TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: HU FLUING HUEY, NOW ON PRO, TAKES A FLING AT SKING | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...present Freshman adviser system is almost universally admitted to be a farce. The wonder is that there are a few isolated advisers who feel obligated to do more than sign study cards twice a year. An adviser should be qualified, of course, to give his advises some confidence that they are not playing blind man's buff with courses; beyond this he is, ideally, supposed to be guide, companion, expert in untangling personal, domestic, social knots in the Freshman's makeup. He is, in a word, supposed to be master of the study of the transition between school and college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMETHING FOR NOTHING | 2/9/1937 | See Source »

...colored fighting machine called Joe Louis and survive ten rounds, would have Done Something. But when a 22-year-old former college footballer named Bob Pastor had eluded Louis for 30 minutes and come out of Madison Square Garden without a mark, the U. S. fight public began to wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Survivor | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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