Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principles of Richard Cobden had been followed Great Britain would still be celebrating the Golden Age, and if Free Trade and economic equality had been practiced throughout Europe I wonder if World War I and II would have occurred...
...were gratified to notice in the April 7 issue of TIME a review of General Sir Archibald Wavell's Allenby: A Study in Greatness, which we published last Thursday. . . . We were somewhat disturbed, however, to see that the book is attributed to Lippincott, and we wonder whether you couldn't find space in your next issue to correct this mis-attribution...
...bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared the top of the door. And no wonder. For standing in take-off position, the top of her rudder is more than 42 ft. above the ground, higher than an ordinary three-story building...
...weight: 80 tons fully loaded (twice the weight of Pan American's big Boeing Clippers). Her left wheel found a soft spot in the macadam, sank 18 inches. She was rolled out, finally tied down not far from 28th Street, where Santa Monicans eyed her with wonder. Over and through her swarmed mechanics, checking her once again. Around and through her walked her pilots, headed by the Army Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing Major Stanley Umstead. For the B19, six years ago no more than a gleam in the eye of far-seeing Air Corpsmen, was ready...
...Oldtime Composer Joseph E. (7 Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?) Howard: ". . . when he is in evening dress it seems that there can be no more evening dress in the world, so much of it does he have...