Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that could have helped out with the uniform of the day problem that we had a while back . . . William Dodd has seen plenty of service as an Aerographer (weather man to you) and his famous bunion ache test will always tell when lousy weather is coming. No wonder he has been limping ever since he has been here...
...blasted grains, tasted them, found he had achieved puffed rice. Quaker Oats's interest in his product made him a fortune. He was a notable attraction at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where he blew grain out of a gunlike apparatus billed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World...
Airlines' Staff. For his chief of staff George picked a tall Texan who had wrought a wonder of airline organization and operation: 43-year-old Cyrus Rowlett Smith, president of American Airlines (biggest in the U.S.). C. R. Smith put on a colonel's uniform, went to work, has won a brigadier's star for the job he has done...
Tipplers began to wonder anxiously: was the dry old man with the stovepipe hat sneaking in by the back door? The answer was no: if the U.S. goes dry in this war it will not be by law but because the liquor supply has dried...
Soviet Russia today is a far cry from Communism-that is, Communism according to Karl Marx. Joseph Stalin's iron personal dictatorship (with its capitalistic features so reassuring to many) makes most old-line Marxists hold their heads and wonder what happened. Whatever became of the Marxist dream of an egalitarian society? The Kremlin (like the U.S. Communist Party) still uses Marx as a sort of ikon and devises rationalizations to make its actions square with Marx's teachings. But most genuine Marxists have been driven, by the failure of the Bolshevist Revolution to lead to a Marxist...