Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picketers against the era of long skirts [TIME, Sept. 15] may as well save their breath. The words "new silhouette" for the first time in years having a literally accurate meaning, the trend is only a natural demand for more flattery in the matter of feminine clothes: the wonder is that women haven't demanded the change much sooner...
...console the millions who could not see the show, radio's perennial wonder boy, Norman Corwin, turned a rosy spotlight on the proceedings with a new script entitled The Time Is Now! "What has the General Assembly in its two years done [about disarmament]?" shouted a voice of disembodied skepticism over the nation's loudspeakers. "What will it do?" The reply came in tones of ringing triumph: "The answer is-it is on the agenda...
...other group in the national structure. In Lehman Hall, Aldrich Durant and his assistant wizards grapple with the same problem that confronts the conscientious manufacturer--how to maintain the quality of the product without raising the cost to the consumer. And, like thrifty housewives, the dining hall stewards wonder if they can keep the cost of meals within their present budget. Students also, particularly veterans with a static income, are experimenting with the manipulation of a dollar which every day means less and less in terms of purchasable commodities...
...wonder if I should know something about football? I'm sure dates just love me to ask them all about it. The only thing I know is that you shouldn't cheer when your date is biting off his nails; and you shouldn't admire the wrong band. Everyone knows that Harvard's band is the best in the land...
...Symphony No. 1 in D (Cleveland Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Small wonder Brahms wrote to his publishers: "I took much pleasure in the works of Dvořák of Prague." This symphony, actually the sixth of Dvořák's nine, is largely a Brahmsian echo. Performance: good...