Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short-line specialist who had invented a gasoline-burning bus-on-rails, established the money-making Edwards Co. (motor railway cars). Edwards agreed to lease the A. & N.C. for $60,500 a year, began operating it under a new company called Atlantic & East Carolina Railway. North Carolinians still wonder whether he knew what a bad bargain he made. A. & N.C. stock was selling for $5 a share-only $1.63 more than the per-share amount of the annual rental he agreed to pay. In the first go days of his lease 14 trains jumped the tracks. Three days after...
...Vagabond sucked on his unlit pipe and began to wonder. The author of the text he had just put aside had a great deal of information about the Middle Ages, undoubtedly remarkable, and perhaps even useful, but could that author transform his dry, textbook style into such sonorous periods and ringing phrases as were went to keep even the drowsiest Freshman from nodding at nine o'clock in the morning? And even if his author could deliver such a lecture, thought Vag, could he hold to the measured pace of his biweekly oration through a series of shrill bursts from...
...Volkischer Beobachter on how to agitate the public, though it redeems itself by the sincerity with which it grants and strives for its purpose. In view of the trend of American journalism away from the ancient canon of "the whole truth and nothing but the truth," small wonder that many readers--those who can afford it--subscribe to more than one paper for a balanced news diet, and that America's most popular cliche, has become "Aw, it's a lot of propaganda...
...been talking about inflation for a long time as if it were a threat remote from our daily lives. It is a distant threat no longer. We are facing it now. . . . The most effective way to prevent damaging price rises is, quite simply, to release surpluses from storage. I wonder if the housewife knows, when she pays 15% more than she did a year ago for a bag of flour, that our supply of wheat is the largest on record. . . . It seems to me desirable and necessary that we permit the entry of Canadian wheat in larger volume...
...instead hired Fritz Kreisler for that sum to play at a Paris party. (Afterwards, she alleges, Bernard Shaw "rushed up and pointed a finger at my nose. 'Tell me just one thing,' he said, 'is it true? If it is, you are the eighth wonder of the world...