Word: mull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year when the season is practically over, organizations interested in collegiate sport foregather to mull over football and its aftermath. Last week four such bodies assembled in Manhattan: National Collegiate Athletic Association...
...possibility of making steady progress without help from his usual instructor naturally grows with his experience of university life. And the concentration of his program makes much of his vacation reading repetition--a new attack on an old favorite, with many suggestions and problems of formal study to mull over and clarify in a fresh stream of impressions. The principal works are usually begun in the vac, then given considerable attention in a series of essays, then browsed over at odd times. Some months later they will again form the staple of vacation review preliminary to the final grind
Earliest selection is from The Booke of Hunting (1576) by George Turberville; latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular...
...Majesty's venerable aunt H.R.H. Princess Louise, dowager Duchess of Argyle, dowager Baroness of Inveraray, Mull, Morvern, Tiry et al., daughter of the late, great Queen Victoria, attended recently a concert staged by her own Kensington Regiment, found fault...
Tooting a shrill goodbye on its whistle, the cruiser U. S. S. Rochester carrying President Hoover's commission to investigate Haitian politics, put out from Port-au-Prince, returned to Miami. Barefooted Haitians in floppy straw hats returned to their homes to mull over the week's events...