Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week obstetricians had another birth to wonder at. In Memorial Hospital at Wilmington, Del., ten-year-old Rosalie Moss, a Negro, gave normal birth to a daughter. Weight...
Wasteland Wonder. For California, it was an agricultural milestone. In three brief years California had become the fifth biggest U.S. cotton producer (its 1948 crop: 960,000 bales, 6.4% of the U.S. total). Last year, California grew $148 million worth of cotton, making it the state's No. 1 crop, well ahead of grapes ($102 million) and oranges ($96 million...
Even in the most careful circles mistakes do happen. However, a close survey of last week's affair will show it is a thing of wonder that there was nothing more exciting that 97 misplaced votes...
...Citation rate with wonder horses of the past? This week Handicapper Plaut pored over his form charts for 1920-Man o' War's big year-and came up with a 1920 Yardstick. Said he, reverently: "There never was a year like it." Plaut put a staggering 144 lbs. on the late, great "Big Red" (then came John P. Grier, 126; On Watch, 123; Upset, 122; Wildair...
...theory that one pound equals one length at a mile-and-a-quarter, Man o' War came out on the Yardstick seven lengths better than 1948's wonder horse, Citation...