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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flock of MacArthur songs still poured out. Among them: Here's To You, MacArthur; Hats Off to MacArthur, We've Got a Wonder Down Under. What sounded the most sincere and tuneful: Fightin' Doug MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With Fife & Drum | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...nurse's attention to this, but she merely replied, "Oh, that means that there is so little blood in your hand that your nerves don't function as they should. It's just the same as when your foot goes to sleep." "Oh," said Vag, and began to wonder if his hand might suddenly fall off. Just then, however, the nurse removed the needle, placed a bandage over the wound, and displayed the pintful of blood. Vag smiled proudly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/15/1942 | See Source »

Landlubbers may wonder what a battleship band does when it is not tootling and drumming. The Navy told them last week. The 21 men in the band of the Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbor, went down with the ship. They died at their battle stations in one of the most dangerous spots on a warship-passing ammunition in the clangorous bowels of the turrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NAVY: Answer | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Lamson is the current wonder boy of the squad, for last spring he wound up on the Eliot House second crew. About a week ago Bolles moved him up to the Jayvees, where he stayed only a brief time before moving upwards again. King rowed on the Eliot firsts last year and Richardson was on the third Varsity...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Twelve Crews Will Practice Next Week | 3/27/1942 | See Source »

...films, Hollywood has shown a propensity to have the Gestapo foiled by the most guileless and pure of people in "Paris Calling," "Man Hunt." "The Great Dictator," and so on. None of these plots had an adult approach to the complicated processes which will lead us to victory. Little wonder, then, that the average American, fed on such treacle, believes that the Germans will crack when faced with the innocence of an Elisabeth Bergner or a Charlie Chaplin...

Author: By Jervis B. Mcmechan, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 3/24/1942 | See Source »

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