Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publisher Ogden Reid began to wonder himself, did not print a Thompson column this week which declared that "there is not the slightest shadow of a doubt" that the Axis wants to see President Roosevelt defeated...
...passed to stardom and a pedestal as U. S. boyhood's Hero No. 1. In the films he could never smoke, always married a schoolteacher or rancher's daughter, never dallied saloonwards except to shoot villains fairly. In 1932, rolled on and badly injured by Tony the Wonder Horse, Mix (who was only a fair horseman) retired, was last week advance-agenting a circus when his car pitched at a highway detour, rolled...
...ordinary citizen, pulling a few crumpled bills, odd change and trolley tokens from his pocket, may wonder who has all this money. Bankers (holding about $1,200,000,000 in currency, about 15%) wonder too. Some possible explanations: 1) hoarding by foreigners, 2) increased need for small coins for sales taxes, vending and pinball machines, 3) decline in checking accounts because of service charges...
...addition, Michigan has a long, tough schedule ahead, and there is no Incentive for Coach Crisler's men to open up and show their tricks this early in the season. The stands will be filled with Big Ten scouts, so Michigan has been heralded as a wonder team, but without Harmon and Evashevski the Wolves have very little to offer. Harmon's supreme ability often makes his line look better offensively than it really...
...Butler's position and that taken by the Harvard group there is a gulf which cannot be bridged by compromise. We believe that most educators and most laymen in America stand unequivocally on the liberal side. In fact, the Columbia president is so far out of line we wonder if, according to his own reasoning, he should not 'in ordinary self-respect' resign. If 'to use the prestige of a university relationship to undermine or to tear down the foundations of principle upon which alone that university can rest' calls for severance of the university relationship, Dr. Butler has most...