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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aerosphere refuses to throw up its hands at Japanese planes, doggedly reprints prewar information "which had not rated the Japanese planes very high," but admits that "such destruction of life and property . . . from a presumably weak air force caused most everyone to wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Death of the Young Colonel | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...would be a Christmas unlike any the U.S. people had ever seen, and one they would long remember. There was hardly a person who had not sent a package, or at least a letter, to a man in uniform; hardly a thoughtful man or woman who would not wonder what it might be like to spend Christmas in a tank on the road to Bizerte or perched in a palm tree in New Guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas: 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...fervor, in a peculiar popular ditty, that they just wanted to keep what they had. It was a time when a young Navy wife in Seattle said: "Last Christmas I worried if my husband would come home from the office sober enough to trim the tree. This year I wonder if he'll come home from the Solomons-anytime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas: 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Against veteran Boy-Wonder Orson Welles, the U.S. filed an income-tax lien for $31,285.92 allegedly owing from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Once married to the late Actor Gregory Kelly, once rumored married to Producer Jed Harris, Actress Gordon fortnight ago married Private Garson Kanin, wiry, 30-year-old former boy wonder among Hollywood directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Three-Star Classic | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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