Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speak and behave as he may wish, within the law." As to the privilege to think as he may wish--Mr. Russell is undoubtedly aware that neither the courts, nor the law makers, are psychic. As for the right to speak as he may wish, within the law,--I wonder if Mr. Russell is unaware of the fact that most civilized communities have laws that forbid indecency of expression as well as profanity...
...Britannia-rules-the-waves; and the grown babies are not likely to surrender the guiding principle of their life without a struggle. The Empire will fight to the last ship, and with her fleet will go to Davy Jones many a German vessel as well. One may then reasonably wonder how dangerous to American liberty an enervated and depleted Nazi navy will prove, even assuming English defeat...
Meantime, moon-faced Horace Wells, a dentist of Hartford, Conn., successfully tried laughing gas on himself before a colleague pulled his tooth. Dazzled with hopes of a fortune, he tried the wonder gas on half-a-dozen patients, then dashed off to Massachusetts General Hospital to demonstrate it. But at the hospital the gas didn't work, and he was hooted...
...tickets were drawn on each starting horse instead of the customary dozen or more. In the U. S., only one person held a ticket on Bogskar: an ex-Bronx prize fighter named August Ruggiere, who hit the jackpot for $105,000 last week just as he was beginning to wonder where his next hamburger was coming from...
Next day and next, while galleries still buzzed over those phenomenal rounds and fellow golfers were beginning to wonder what makes Texans so mighty,* Demaret and Mangrum led the parade, with Nelson close on their heels. On the fourth day, when final scores were posted, Texas won by a landslide: Demaret in first place with 280, Mangrum second with 284, Nelson third with 285 ; Harry Cooper tied for fourth with two non-Texans...