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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thoroughly on top of his subject, Professor Brinton currently ranges from a General Education course in the Social Sciences to an intensive, in-close consideration of the history of France and Western Europe. Wonder at his organic grasp of these many levels has sent many a man sidling into local book-stores to ask hesitatingly for some novels by Henty...

Author: By H. B., | Title: Faculty Profile | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

...wonder how long it will take before the progressive, scientifically developed peoples of the r world will be able to distinguish between the criminal and the diseased and will treat each group individually. I doubt sincerely if Judge Scott's method of cure -nine months in jail and then five years of probation-will prove very effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Millions, of foreigners . . . would see these horrible things and wonder if it isn't true about Americans being so crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...that, the good & bad, was past. When Maury went to Los Angeles to practice law a year ago (he sold his San Antonio house in 1941), the city began to wonder about him. She looked tacky, her policing was sloppy, she had floods and bad drainage. Then a polio epidemic caught her health department off balance. Citizens were getting fed up with the bumbling, fix-nothing administration of spluttery Mayor Gus Mauermann. Even Maury's old enemies began phoning him in Los Angeles and Maverick-for-Mayor stickers began to appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Maury's Back! | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' wife, Catherine, played the piano at a benefit for Washington's National Symphony, but only as an accompanist. Soloist: the Nimitz' wonder-spaniel, Freckles, who gave Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms such a sensitive interpretation (see cut) that he had to do three encores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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