Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more medical researchers learn about the benefits of mother's milk, the more wondrous a substance it seems. It helps protect the baby from such assorted ills as colic, diaper rash, gastrointestinal disorders, allergies and the common cold. Breast feeding, say some doctors, even wards off emotional disturbances later in life. And there are valuable side effects for the mother...
...CRIMSON reviewers--the treatment of work already hailed or roasted by professionals"--comes over me now with unusual urgency. I must report that a novel that has, for a solid month, been crapped all over by a score of literateurs more authoritative than I, struck me as a grand, wondrous, exciting effort of imagination...
These men, ranging from the systems engineers at the top down to the machine operators, have made a pampered and all but adored child of the computer. Not content with having it perform wondrous feats in space and on earth, they are constantly trying to extend its capabilities. In the experimental milieu they have created, they have taught computers to play ticktacktoe, blackjack, checkers and a passable game of chess, instructed it to compose avant-garde music (the Illiac Suite at the University of Illinois), write simple TV westerns and whodunits, and even try its hand at beatnik poetry. Example...
...Wondrous Tales. So much for the Northeast Passage. In 1576, Captain Martin Frobisher set out to discover a Northwest Passage to Asia. His third voyage produced a remarkable description: "The storme still increased and the yce so invironed us, that we could see neither land nor sea, as farre as we could kenne: so that we were faine to ease the ships sides from the great and driry strokes of the yce: some with Capstan barres, some fending off with oares, some with plancks of two ynches thicke, which were broken immediatly with the force of the yce, some going...
...much for the Northwest Passage. Southward the way was barred by Spain, but the greedy "marchant adventurers" heard wondrous travelers' tales. One story, no doubt brought back by an ancestor of Ian Fleming, gave it out that "certaine servants of the emperor having prepared gold into fine powder blow it thorow hollow canes upon their naked bodies, untill they be al shining from the foote to the head...