Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term "tennis bums" was found for proficient young men who drifted from tournament to tournament, expenses paid. Top-flight players-Fred Perry, the ping-pong stylist, Ellsworth Vines, the lanky speed king, Don Budge, the redheaded wonder-turned pro and went on tour. Graceful girls in shorts refreshed the nation's sport pages. But top-flight competition could not survive World War II. "Somehow, anything seems more important at this point than tennis," said Ted Schroeder, before the tournament. The end of such pleasures was at hand...
...days later he began to wonder when he found that a check he had sent his son in February had been cashed in San Francisco March 11. Then came a letter from his son-the handwriting was unmistakably his-dated March 31. "Well, Dad," it said, "I am finally in a position where I can write you again . . . I'm on a different ship...
Considering this fact, citizens who read about the 4,500,000 man-days in her making and the 1,100 miles of blueprint paper in her plans might remember torpedo planes, wonder whether it would not have been more practical to finish Passamaquoddy after all. They had all heard that the plane had made the dreadnought an anachronism, that the carrier was king, that the U.S. had already abandoned or postponed five projected 58,000-ton super-super-battleships. Would the Iowa spend the war ignominiously tied to a dock? Almost certainly...
...Stanford's famed T formation and more recently the bugaboo of the big bad Chicago Bears), Lieut. Harold Van Every (one of Minnesota's slickest broken-field runners and later star of the monstrous Green Bay Packers) and Corporal George Cafego (tailback on Tennessee's recent wonder team). The Western Lineup boasts Lieut. John Kimbrough (Texas Aggies' 220-lb. fullback who got $9,000 for six pro games last year) and three others of the high-scoring 1940 Aggies: Quarterback Marion Pugh, Halfbacks Jimmy Thomason and Bill Conatser...
...Small wonder that the voter, the consumer, the little man decided there must be something basically wrong with democracy and glanced about the world uneasily for a way out. Author Carr asserts that in the U.S. and Britain the bewildered, apathetic little man has thus far found this way out only in war. "It is useless today," he writes, "to condemn the economic consequences of large-scale war because it is destructive of accumulated wealth. This is not the main consideration, so long as it mitigates the evils of unemployment and inequality. . . . War is at the present time the most...