Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Professor Thomas Whittemore, 79, Harvard archeologist who supervised the uncovering of St. Sophia's wondrous Byzantine mosaics; in Washington, D.C. The mosaics, constructed over the course of nine centuries by thousands of anonymous workmen, were plastered over by the Moslem Turks who took Constantinople in 1453 (the Koran prohibits images), remained hidden until 1932, when Whittemore began the painstaking job, still uncompleted, of removing the plaster chip by chip...
Nothing but Hope. The doctors are still deep in argument over possible substitutes for the wonder hormones ACTH and cortisone. A few Swedish, British and U.S. investigators claim wondrous results with desoxycorticosterone acetate ("DOCA," an adrenal hormone) and vitamin C injections given within a few minutes of each other. Others in the U.S. sing the praises of such hormones as 21-acetoxy-pregnenolone. None of these, said Drs. Hench and Kendall, have stood up under proper testing...
...Dick Simonton vowed that when he was grown up he would own one too. That time eventually came, but Simonton, by then 30 and a Los Angeles dispenser of Muzak, had to wait until the end of World War II to write to Germany for Welte's wondrous music rolls. The answer he got from the Welte Co. in 1948 sent him packing off to Germany himself...
Like the turtle, the bureaucrat, hunched up within the comfortable armor plate of civil-service regulations, seldom moves at a pace faster than a lumbering lurch. But head, neck and unwinking eye can zip out with wondrous speed-to snap at a taxpayer, look out a window at a parade, or sip a slow cup of coffee at the nearest Government cafeteria. Last week the Senate heard another little-noted fact about his living habits: he can, and frequently does, enjoy the equivalent of about ten weeks of paid vacation a year...