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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the corridor. Attracted by the crackle of gunfire, friends rushed forward, carried the wounded "Kingfish" out a rear door, put him into a car, started for Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. On the way Huey Long held his hand to his bleeding side, spoke only once: "I wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Death of a Dictator | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...Division of Near Eastern African Affairs. In his shirtsleeves, Diplomat Murray was fingering a pencil and thinking to himself as he looked out the window that in Ethiopia it must be raining too. Putting on his coat, Mr. Murray prepared to receive Standard Oil, remarking to his secretary, "I wonder what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Odor of Oil (Cond'd) | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...hastily transfers his assets, had handed oil concessions covering more than half his realm to a British Master of Foxhounds with swank London connections (see p. 23). Instantly the French Left Parties, hostile to Capitalism and to Imperialism, were alert. M. Herriot and the other Leagophiles began to wonder if British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden, who had been slated to preach to the League Council this week about Right & Justice, was not either duped or duping. Paris detected a nauseating odor of oil from the direction of London, and this perfectly suited strong-nosed Pierre Laval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Odor of Oil | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...wonder what horn-ignoring Harold Keates Hales has done if and when, while driving, he has met a car coming across the road towards him with its driver looking off to the side and not realizing that he has changed the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...found the article in your magazine [TIME, Aug. 5] and I must admit that the accompanying illustration seemed to me to annihilate all the efforts of the written text. I wonder whether you realized the terrific damage caused by such an illustration. Your magazine is being read all over the country and you have succeeded in convincing people that I am only a painter of horrors. As a result ... I may lose every opportunity for years to come to receive other commissions for murals or portraits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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