Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...masterpieces he turns out. There are lots of those falsely reassuring multiple choice questions and an ultra-involved point system which manages to cut away as much credit for every right answer as possible while counting all the wrong answers twice as much. The poor examinee begins to wonder, after a does of this, whether Bix Beiderbecke played a horn or a bass viol. But the Great Collector usually goes on and on, relentlessly playing momentary snatches of Bobby Hackett's guitar, PeeWee Russell's saxophone, and Tommy Dorsey's trumpet cleverly hiding even the labels from view...
Something of the terror and wonder seemed to have gone from man's attitude toward the atomic bomb. Bomb No. 4 had been exploded at Bikini before a world-wide radio audience and 40,000 pairs of frightened eyes. Bomb No. 5, set off last week, was the tool of seasoned weaponeers, and the world watched less in fear than in curiosity at the damage it would...
...Kabat is convinced that most spastics can be helped (although curing them is impossible). He first got on the track of spastic therapy when he worked with Sister Elizabeth Kenny (see below) at the University of Minnesota in 1942. Kabat, a boy wonder who got his Ph.D. from Northwestern at 22, was then an instructor in physiology. He discovered that prostigmine, which had been used chiefly to relieve post-operational gas pains, relieved muscular and nervous tension in polio victims, helped physical therapy to create new habit patterns...
Summer school wasn't all it was cracked up to be. It meant one more semester saved, but Vag was beginning to wonder whether he had not paid too much for the whistle. One more summer like this and he would be ready for the bughouse. Already his ideas of going to Grad School were beginning to fade: the very thought of spending another few years stagnating with the rest of the gleeps was enough to send him out for another beer. It used to be a question of going to work or going to school, and naturally everyone picked...
...Holland surname was adopted by Constance Wilde, under strong pressure from her family, after Oscar's conviction): "I was only nine in 1895, and was not even told of my father's difficulties until I was 20. Everything happened so long ago that I am beginning to wonder if there really has ever been such a person as Oscar Wilde...