Word: wonders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While Amateur Astronomer Antonio Duran Navarro lay on his back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago in his novel Pellucidar [and its predecessor, At the Earth's Core...
...assumed the title Bogyok (General). As head of the A.F.P.F.L. (AntiFascist People's Freedom League), he had risen to power by staging civil servants' strikes, teachers' strikes, police strikes. (Said some British critics, after his death, "Since the A.F.P.F.L. cooked the cake [of violence], no wonder they have to eat it.") Last winter he headed a delegation to London to sign the British agreement to give Burma independence. After A.F.P.F.L. won a big majority in the spring elections, Aung San was in line to become Burma's first Prime Minister...
...wonder what...
...wonder where to go to buy a car cheap...
Spinach v. Gin. Americans who wonder what existentialism is about will find a simplified translation in the comic strip Popeye, whose "I am what I am!" is existentialism stripped of its dialectical jargon. Like Popeye, the hero of The Age of Reason keeps low company, often talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy...