Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, which will have sold over 60,000 copies in 1944 alone, although it was first published 21 years ago. He points out as remarkable, and rightly so, total printings of 30,000 copies for Russell Daven port's My Country. I wonder if he has heard of Walter Benton's This Is My Beloved, which was published in February 1943 and has sold in 1944 approximately 22,000. Then don't you think TIME might have mentioned Rikky Harrison's Look at the World, which also went places...
...night half of each day, might encrust the next two columns with precious and semiprecious names. It is a life which leaves her extraordinarily little time for sleep-five hours a night; less on Sunday because of Mass-and far less time for quietness or thought. Plain people often wonder how such supercharged individuals keep their health. The answer is, they usually do not. Anita Colby was hospitalized three years ago for complete physical exhaustion; last year two doctors kept check on her: now, like Lord Byron and a host of other driven people before her, she' has developed...
...through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder he's mad about...
...wonder insecticide, which has been second only to penicillin as the biggest continuing science news of 1944 (TIME, June 12 et seg.), was at it again last week. Its latest performances...
...wonder is not that an occasional piece of copy or film gets stuck in the censorship filter, but that so much news gets through as swiftly as it does. Into the filter the 800 correspondents accredited to SHAEF, plus numerous unaccredited correspondents in Britain, now pour every week approximately 3,000,000 words, 35,000 still pictures, 100,000 feet of movie film...