Word: mull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more I mull about the matter the greater becomes my puzzlement that Princeton should have taken the decisive step in the break with Harvard. No college ever eat prettier than the Tigers. Year after year they met the Crimson team after a disappointing season and always they came to life to perform prodigies and win a brilliant victory...
...Success of The Chisolm Trail" said Leatherbee, "has led us to select a series of American dramas that should delight a number of the undergraduates. First on our list comes The Lynching of Jesse James by Myrtle Mull into which we are now planning to introduce our motorcycle Agnes Dinwitte's foaming drama The Johnstown Flood is next on the list it is especially suitable for the H. D. C. in as much as it is based on the old ballad Lips that Touch Liquor shall Never touch Mine...
...more the experts mull the matter over the more gloomy they become. They can see no way out, unless--and this has been darkly and secretly whispered in almost every gridiron circle this fall--Coach Arnold Horween '20 is going to develop a quarterbackless team. The assumption is that the team would be probably directed by some veteran lineman, while an experienced half back fulfilled the purely physical duties of the quarterback...
Sensations, messages from the outer world, are carried by afferent nerves to definite lobes and to definite locations in these lobes. There the grey cells in the cortex mull the influences of these stimuli, play with them, sometimes bury them as memories. If a physical reaction is wanted, consciously or subconsciously, the brain sends out its will by way of efferent nerves to the organs of expression, to the limbs, the viscera, the tongue, the hand...
...Pulitzer Prize day, fortunately, there are no presentation scenes. Shortly beforehand, 12 journalists (the Advisory Board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism) and the President of Co lumbia University mull over reports made to them by juries* on the year's crop of plays, novels, verse, newspaper editorials, stories, cartoons. The 13 hold conference, then just send a list of winners to the newspapers for publication...