Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Lord Halifax: "Small wonder if men & women everywhere are unsatisfied and ill at ease, since in their hour of greatest need they have lost that which was indeed their birthright - the knowledge of how to pray. Yet, amid all the sorrow and darkness . . . there is consolation. The example alone of heroism . . . as it appears in thousands of lives . . . [shows] that man has renounced the philosophy which paralyzed so much literature and art in the prewar world. Truly, as day by day we see acts of willing self-sacrifice . . . we can . . . turn with firm confidence from the temporary triumphs...
Americans find the Boongs a constant source of wonder for their childlike good nature and shiny black skins, as well as for their highly developed bushcraft. (One private stared at an Abo in amazement, then said: "He's so black he's almost purple.") Boongs like to hang around soldiers' camps, where they get gifts of tobacco, flour and tea, and occasionally a profitable job of tracking...
...wonder drug penicillin (TIME, Feb. 8) is doing even better than expected. In the Lancet, Britain's H. W. Florey, who first sponsored the drug, recently described the largest series to date of penicillin-treated (and usually cured) cases. The patients had osteomyelitis, septicemia, eye infections, meningitis, chronic infected wounds. Findings...
Time enough to pay dry-cleaning bills and to wonder whittler we will miss the 2300 "All-Secure" and the delicious moment of tumbling back into the lower bunk after the matey has dragged "All Feet on Deck" at 0645... and that crush at the mailboxes with at least fifty witness to the fact that you got six letters and a package and it wasn't your birthday...and the armed foroes we are leaving behind us... Now don't let us get mellow. time enough for that, too, when celebrating our WAVE wedding on June 9 when Ensign Jean...
Running TIME's reference library keeps 33 librarians and helpers busy full time under tall Smith-alumna Virginia Smucker, who worked for two college libraries before she came to TIME six years ago. Her staff never ceases to wonder at the amazing questions thrown at them day after day-but day after day they take all comers in their stride. And so if you sometimes feel that the background facts in TIME's stories are especially sharp and clear, I think you ought to know that these people (whose names never show up in type) should...