Word: mull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government professors and an executive officer of the United World Federalists will meet in Harvard 6 tonight to mull the prospects and needs for immediate world government. The talks will begin...
...Council, as Dean Bender has said, is a "deliberative body" whose chief function is the preparation of reports, "some of which have been extra-ordinarily significant." These reports are the job of the Council's eight Committees, which handle polls, conduct investigations, mull over their findings, and finally write a detailed summary of their activities...
Poskanzer's group has thrown the book--77 pages worth--at the College. Now the Faculty with student cooperation, should mull it over (much as Dean Bender's committee has been doing for the past few months) and figure out a way to dispose of the one big piece of unfinished business before the College: that of turning a passive process of education into one that is active and alive...
...staffers he is something of a mystic, inclined to mull over big plans while he puffs on a pipe or a 10? cigar. Then, with every detail worked out in his mind, he springs his ideas without warning. Sometimes, when crossed in an argument, he will seem to fumble for words, with a disarming, apologetic smile, a brown-eyed stare, and an Oh-gosh stammer. "That's the time to look out," says a man who has been fencing with him for years. "He's never fumbling for ideas; his mind simply outruns his tongue...
Roscoe Pound, former Dean of the Law School; Senator George W. Malone, Republican, of Nevada; Edwin O, Reischauer, assistant professor of Far Eastern Languages; and John K. Fairbank '22, professor of History, will mull over Far Eastern problems and seek an answer to the question: "A New Foreign Policy for Asia...