Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marks The Spot. The men on Capitol Hill, jealous of their old prerogatives, clinging to their oldtime dignity, were bewildered and sore hurt. They were tired of being laughed at. Yet they did not wonder why they no longer commanded respect; instead they seized upon the press. Louisiana's Representative F. Edward Hebert warned darkly: "Unless something is done to curb that section of the press which holds in ridicule the keystone of democracy . . . our whole system of Government is going to collapse." Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead accused disrespectful newspapers of "sedi-tious conduct," cried...
...manufacturers, merchants or housewives have yet heard of Masslinn. Last week its proud maker, Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), explained why: the wonder baby had literally been snatched from the cradle and hastened off to war. Eighteen months ago it made a modest debut in Chux, a disposable diaper; before it could appear in sheets, window draperies, table cloths, wall paper, wire insulation, Masslinn was abruptly withdrawn from the market and production (now running about 800,000 yards per month) converted totally to Army & Navy needs...
Among the many ores which have been sent in to be tested, one discovered in Ontario by Teaching Fellow Willard C. Lacy has been found to be the richest. Investigation of the specimens by means of the spectograph, the wonder-working detecting instrument that is taking the place of chemical analysis, is under the direction of Professor Esper S. Larsen...
Meanwhile MacArthur's Army airplanes from Australia and New Guinea had picked up the main Jap body moving south, presumably near the Louisiade Archipelago. In that first phase, while the U.S. naval force left the Jap to wonder where it had gone after striking him. Army aircraft plastered him continually, day after...
...subject of hate came before the Institute when Hollywood's boy wonder, Writer-Director Arch Oboler (Plays for Americans) slouched up to the speaking table, mumbled a compliment for Corwin, and cut loose with the other barrel. "Anger is what people want, and they want hate, the hate of a determined people who are going to kill. . . . The public says: make us angry. We like...