Word: mull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congressmen, a journalist, and a prominent, New York attorney will mull over the problem, "How Can We Improve Congressional Investigation?" when the Law School Forum swings into its spring term program at 8 p.m. in the Rindge Tech auditorium...
Committees are the actual workhorses of the Council. They handle polls, conduct investigations, mull over their findings, and finally write detailed reports on the issue involved. They perform what Dean Bender has called the most important functions of the Council; deliberation and recommendation. Some of their proposals have in the words of the Dean, been "extraordinarily significant...
...lawyer had pleaded that he was "a fanatic . . . doing what he thought best for his country." Said Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford, who had taken more than two months to mull over the evidence: "A fanatic can do as much harm to his country as any other person...
...over those years when the Republicans were outside looking in. But authorizing one special committee, Democrats argued, meant opening the door to many "special" committees and violating the spirit of the reorganization act. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry was already knocking at the door with another special committee to mull over the problems of small business...
...rural retreat we have time to mull over our contacts with French people of all casts and classes, and to ponder over the events which are plunging our unfortunate country in the depths of despair. We wonder that no one has come forward to say that if the Government of France is poor and reduced to expedients, it is because the war-weary people have lost confidence and interest. Though they sadly need the aid that the U.S. might proffer, they know that it is not reasonable of such a government to ask it. But we feel certain that...