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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder if most other women don't agree with me. M. B. CLARKE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...choice of women poets, too might be taken exception to. I wonder why Dr. Hart did not choose l'an Chch I. Past Pau, and Li Ching Chao...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

...with quotations from his books and speeches. Recently Senator Dickinson of Iowa gave his colleagues this sample of Tugwelliana: "There can be no secure peace in the world so long as its people are engaged in industry and organized in independent units. . . . It ought to be a source of wonder that a society could operate at all when profits are allowed to be earned and disposed of as we do it. . . . It is necessary to realize quite finally that everything will be changed if the linking of industry can finally be brought to completion in a plan. . . . Once the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Undersecretary No. 3 | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...Well, probably was had a right, a protective right, in our American sphere; and besides, we were making the world safe for democracy, at least, the American world at that time by undesigning the South American Revolution and thus making it a successful revolution. But I am led to wonder if it is not a bit brazen and self-contradictory to get into another sphere, and in self-appointed leadership and proxy to dictate to Japan an unqualified insistence on the "open door" to China. (I often wonder, too, what China has to say about it, after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The China Cake | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

...robbers broke into Edwardsville State Bank in Wyandotte County, Kans., fell upon the vice president as he entered in the morning, made off with $1,400. While waiting for the time lock to release the vault door, one of the robbers observed: "You know, it's a wonder that Dillinger hasn't visited this joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banks & Robbers | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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