Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sell for $129,000 has no business crabbing when he gets fooled in the process of displaying himself in four color reproductions on the back of a magazine for $500. It is the self-styled gentleman riders like this that provide good food for revolutionary thought. No wonder the masses riot now and again...
...Military Affairs Commission of the Nanking Government. Last week famed Chiang Kaishek, Dictator of China, resigned as Chief of the Military Affairs Commission, also resigned his numerous other Government offices, including that of Premier. Heaping blame of all sorts upon himself, the Dictator carried on until Chinese began to wonder if he really did mean not to be Premier any more. They had supposed he was only going through motions of Chinese politeness, resigning his offices and accepting "blame" because he had been kidnapped by one of his subordinates (TIME, Jan. 4 et ante}. In return politeness the rest...
...little over 22,000 feet . . . and just when I am beginning to wonder how much less oxygen I can get along without, there is the sun! From the strangely low angle it seems to pop up at us. The chromium plated struts gleam and twinkle, and the vivid orange wings take on new light...
...Wonder if their faces match the color of those tired-looking yellow lights? ... A long climbing turn, the propeller set back to low pitch. Down goes the landing gear. The plane lands on the runway as lightly as the wings of the morning...
...France, ours and the Guises, attempting to encroach on the Crown? Was she not forced to play strange parts to deceive the one and the other and yet, as she did, to protect her children, who reigned in succession by the wisdom of a woman so able? I wonder that she did not do worse!" The Author- Forty-six-year-old Ralph Roeder was in John R. Tunis' celebrated Class of 1911 at Harvard (TIME, Sept. 14) though he "never spoke to a living soul" while he was there, returned to his native Manhattan to join the Washington Square...