Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most people who have tried to help me prepare current events questions make them too hard or too easy. Testers Eurich and Wilson have erred on the easy side, but they make me wonder whether the current affairs tests which I give to my Current History class of New York City high school teachers each year are too hard...
...frozen northern home Father Dionne, shaken to the core, whimpered: "Mr. Croll told us that God never intended us to have money. He said to go back to my farm and forget about the babies until they were 18, and then I would have $1,000,000. I wonder how far north we would have to go to be free...
...Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson. The wonder is that the professional comedians don't unionize in an attempt to preserve their interests and send a lobby to Congress...
...story was a front-page wonder until Dr. Schumann belatedly recalled that his picture was taken 30 years...
...Pittsburgh radio applecart, buys its news from an upstart independent outfit named Transradio Press Service (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Transradio celebrated its first birthday by announcing new customers in Newark, N. J., Louisville, Ky., Richmond, Va., and, most important, its first "national" sponsor, Continental Baking Co.'s "Wonder Bread." The Wonder Bread news programs begin this week in Detroit, Columbus, Akron, Dayton, Toledo...