Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder that for us his word is not worth the paper it is written...
...military metallurgy, beryllium is rated a new wonder metal. The element beryllium was discovered by a Frenchman in 1797, but during World War I and for years afterward there was no known use for it; in 1923 its price was $5,000 per pound. But beryllium ores are scattered widely over the world and last week the price of the metal was down to about $11. Not quite twice as heavy as water, beryllium is one of the lightest of all metals. It is a third lighter than aluminum. Chemically wedded to copper or nickel, it makes an extremely hard...
This sort of front, plus a prodigious capacity for turning out ideas and listenable plays, make Arch Oboler NBC's No. 1 Wonder Boy. His start toward such a ranking goes back to a bundle of estimable playlets he turned out in 1934-35 for the Grand Hotel program. This got him an NBC job writing for Rudy Vallee's hour, as well as a Wednesday after-midnight radio dreadful called Lights Out. After two eldritch years, during which Lights Out collected a batch of eerie-minded fan clubs and curdled more next-door neighbors than any program...
Author Nicolson's sly habit of poking polite fun at pomposity while paying his respects to pompous bigwigs, made many people wonder just how well Author Nicolson and Diplomat Nicolson got along together. Diplomacy leaves little doubt that Author Nicolson takes Diplomat Nicolson very seriously, that though Author Nicolson resigned from the Foreign Affairs Committee in disagreement with Prime Minister Chamberlain after Munich, Diplomat Nicolson has by no means given up Cabinet hopes...
Last year Philadelphia's pink and twinkly Music Publisher James Francis Cooke, whose Oliver Ditson Music Co. had turned many a penny publishing Songwriter Bland's bestseller, began to wonder who James A. Bland really was. In vain he consulted the heftiest musical encyclopedias. Even Ditson's oldest officials had no recollection of any James A. Bland...