Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICANS READING TIME JUNE 19 WONDER IF TWA'S FACE ISN'T RED? TIME'S ARTICLE MUCH NEEDED SLAP AT AMERICAN JOURNALISM, WHICH PERHAPS WILL LEARN THAT HEROES ARE OFTEN HUMANS...
...appointment of Jesse Holman Jones to head the new Federal Loan Agency and of John Michael Carmody to head the new Federal Works Agency. Mr. Jones's translation from Reconstruction Finance Corp. was scarcely unexpected, but quick reference to the President's great new scheme made observers wonder if Mr. Jones had not been kicked upstairs instead of promoted. Only part of the proposed plan which the Loan Agency would supervise was the foreign business. Mr. Jones, professional banker, has been regarded by the New Deal as none too openhanded, no persistent pump-primer.* Secretary Henry Wallace...
...Eleanor Roosevelt also lobbied for FTP last week. In My Day, she wrote: "I know that this project is considered as dangerous because it may harbor some Communists, but I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death...
...wonder of life never paled for Professor Conklin. When he taught undergraduates and flashed images of microscopic plants and animals on a stereopticon screen, Conklin himself looked at them with open-mouthed awe. At the close of their senior year he always advised his students to get married the day after graduation. From 1908, he stayed at Princeton, ripening not only in years, but-as many other old-fashioned teachers do not-in wisdom and prestige...
...here at college have a goal ahead, a moment so far in the future that it is hard to imagine,--twenty-fifth reunion. They wonder who they will be, what they will have done, what their class-mates will be like. They feel that that moment, those few days when they will gather here again, will show them the substance of which their class is made. Today, class of 1914, that moment is yours. Men here now can only hope that they will see in themselves twenty-five years hence the strength they...