Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the Crimson's constant publicity I wonder if the main body of graduate and undergraduate, Army and Navy students has yet taken seriously the opportunity to give blood to the Red Cross...
...China flyers ranged farther. On another raid they swept down river to Kiu-kiang (see p. 25), broke up a Jap concentration. They punched at Nanchang and, it was reported, at Hong Kong. Greatest wonder of all: they ranged southeast all the way to Canton, caught the Jap's planes on the ground, blasted 50 to 60 of them to bits. This week, over Szechwan, they broke up a 50-plane Jap bombing party headed for Chungking...
Interstellar Influence? In other countries the sudden disappearance of rodent swarms is less spectacular. Yet they always disappear. Zoologists still wonder why. In northern Canada "an outburst of mouse-meat" is always accompanied by an increase of foxes, hawks and other mouse-loving predators. But mouse cycles in Britain, where predators have been largely killed off, are as regular and violent as in wilder lands...
...Harvard men taking Military Science must come to Summer School, while Navy Sci men can spend their time trout fishing. Yale Navy Sci men are obliged to accelerate, while Princetonians have their choice. The entire structure of the college officer procurement system is confused and inefficient. It is no wonder that only twenty per cent of the V-1 and Enlisted Reserve Corps quotas have been filled...
...average U.S. citizen said the hell with it and went for a long, tire-consuming joyride last week, it was small wonder. As the week wore on, he was subjected to more confusion than ever about the rubber shortage. Some moderately good news of ersatz tire prospects was perverted into a miracle like the loaves and fishes...