Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works so hard I wonder when he finds time to sleep," murmured a woman listener in Red Square. "I am worried about his health...
...come to New York for stimulation," said Poet Katherine Biddle, wife of the U.S. Solicitor General. "Washington has such a sleepy climate. It's hard to work there. I wonder that the Government people get anything done...
...fund and several special gifts. The building, for which $600,000 was raised, is "supposedly earthquake-proof." The seven floors of stacks in the library tower (a reproduction of the cathedral tower at Salamanca) get no sunlight but are strongly and uniformly illuminated by prismatic globes, to the wonder of Engineer Hoover...
...section of the Library fills him with a wonder that is more Dantesque-the propaganda section. It contains, he says, "probably more lies, half-truths and untruths" than any other similar room in the world. What deeply troubles Herbert Hoover, who knows in a personal way something of the vicious effects of lies, is the inability of propaganda-poisoned people any longer to know when they are being poisoned. He sees in the Library's propaganda section evidence on a vast scale of "the mind's total abdication from truth." If he is right, the Library may prove...
...days when the Reichswehr maneuvered with the "defensive" weapons allowed them by Versailles, "but everybody knows they've got the rest-tanks, heavy artillery and probably airplanes." Those were the days of the Saar plebiscite; the winter Olympic games ("On the whole the Nazis have done a wonder ful propaganda job."); the Hitler peace speeches ("We have no territorial demands to make in Europe! . . . Germany will never break the peace...