Word: mull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter wind shrilled over the precipitous heather-covered mountains of the Isle of Mull last week. A few black, bleary-eyed sheep huddled in the lee of ancient deserted cottages. But from the flagstaff of Duart Castle the Maclean banner whipped boldly, and down in the great hall the pipes were screaming "The Chief's Salute." Hundreds of Macleans from all over the world were there to drink their chieftain's health, to eat his mutton and haggis. The Maclean of Clan Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean of Dowart and Morvaren, was celebrating his 50th year as chieftain...
...Secretary Tugwell, by wise, bespectacled Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, new economic adviser to the Secretary and by Frederick Lee, onetime lobbyist for the major farm organizations. At the Capitol, Representative Jones of Texas whisked it into his Committee on Agriculture, summoned his colleagues, slammed the door and settled down to mull over its complexities...
Celebrating his 97th birthday, Col. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, chief of Clan Maclean, received at his home on the Isle of Mull a telegram of greeting from the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, Thus ended a feud which began 187 years ago when a Maclean chief suspected his wife of peccadillos with a Campbell...
...meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder work than young ones, are graded more severely. In the beginning, concentrators peruse or hear read for three minutes a single paragraph, such as one dealing with the palindrome ("Madam, I'm Adam"). Then for seven minutes they mull over questions based on the paragraph, while their teachers endeavor to muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study, 15 for answers-with harder work to do: mathematical examples, psalms or poetry to be learned, a picture to be gazed at. The distractions get worse & worse...
...celebre. The Supreme Court, by 5-4 decision, denied U. S. citizenship to two Canadians, Rev. Douglas Clyde Macintosh, professor of theology in Yale Divinity School, Wartime chaplain, and Marie Averill Bland, Wartime nurse. Professor Macintosh announced that before bearing arms for the U. S., he should prefer to mull over moral causes. Miss Bland would not promise to bear arms at all. The majority of the Court solemnly pronounced: ". . . We are a Christian people. . . . But we are also a nation with the duty to survive . . . whose government must go forward upon the assumption . . . that unqualified allegiance to the nation...