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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question the scientific basis of some of your opinions; I object to your implications; and I wonder why you did not give adequate treatment to the case against marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...booths on a Los Angeles lot and started a brave one-man revival of prestidigitatorial entertainment, but not at tent-show prices. Service men got in free; the rest paid $11 a seat opening night, a $5.50 top thereafter. For that they got two bewitching hours of the versatile Wonder Boy, dazzlingly costumed, reading minds, hypnotizing his curvilinear assistant, Starlet Mary Rowland, whipping rabbits out of hats and bowls full of rice out of nowhere, sawing ladies in halves, levitating stooges, and triumphantly producing Rita Hayworth from a trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...Vatican policy toward Russia, which pleases scarcely anybody. The papacy's unflagging crusade against Communism in & out of Russia has long infuriated Leftists. Its recent broadcasts to Russia in Russian have worried: 1) radicals, who fear Catholic propaganda; 2) conservatives, who wonder what the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace & the Papacy | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...yawmzed breath' through its natural partner, the stretch, animate the entire body. This is the 'stylized breath.'" Once he explained: "We are a band groping toward intuitive communication. . . . When you conceive of a community, all members of which are swayed by kindred emotions of awe and wonder, expressing themselves through plastic bodies moving rhythmically, the picture is staggering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS AND BUREAUS: The Yawn Quality | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...Philadelphia Phillies' brand-new owner Bill Cox (TIME, July 5) last week fired one manager and hired another. Observers were far from certain why he dumped the successful 46-year-old boy wonder "Bucky" Harris for the barrel-chested old Brooklynite Freddy Fitzsimmons. But they were dead sure that he had done it badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fitz to Philly | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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