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Word: wondering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other bands exist for themselves only and they're not at the game in support of anyone," Walker said. "I sometimes wonder if the Band (Harvard's) is not too egocentrically oriented itself-they have such a good time that they almost forget that they are supposed to be at the game in support of the football team," he continued...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Harvard Band: After Today, What? | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

...takes an effort of mind to recall the time, not so very long ago, when America was still something like a collection of small towns, and a provincial newspaperman named Henry Louis Mencken was its national cracker-barrel atheist. It is, moreover, a matter for wonder that Mencken, who dressed like the gallused boors he despised, chewed cigars like a Tammany clubhouse character and had tastes that ran to beer and bawdy jokes, was ever regarded as the epitome of metropolitan sophistication. The term smart set, which was the title of his first magazine, seems sadly unsmart today. The word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun Among the Philistines | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...wonder who they're afraid might get into that place?" I asked as we drove off. A voice from the back seat mumbled, "Necrophiliacs...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Memoirs of a Would-be Street lighter | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...little wonder that the administration rarely resorts to defending itself with facts, judging from Mrs. Bunting's attempt in the Wednesday CBIMSON to invalidate the recent demands concerning wage differentials in the Radcliffe kitehens. Past attempts to justify the 90c differential be been men chefs and women cooks (who do the same work in different kitchens) have been easily exposed. Miss Russ, the Radcliffe dietitian, was the first to bungle it. At an interview with several student workers, she rationalized, "The men have more responsibility because the women feel less secure in the kitchens and look...

Author: By Ginny Vogel, | Title: The Mail FACTS WRONG | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Journey, The Mind as Nature) as well as a front-rank anthropologist, he is one of the few living scientists who can contemplate evolution and think of the Odyssey as the immediately appropriate metaphor. Somehow Eiseley has absorbed all the New Information while retaining a pre-scientific sense of wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild Reality | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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