Word: mull
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Pittsburgh's steel tycoons-having razed slums, banished smog, tamed rivers, and put up a great medical center-paused seven years ago to mull over the stagnant University of Pittsburgh. The verdict: Pitt was a "trolley-car school" saved from obscurity only by a renowned football team and a bizarre 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning. To revive Pitt, the tycoons resolved to spend $100 million, and to get the job done they hired as chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, who predicted that Pitt would soon emerge as "one of the world's greatest institutions." Pitt...
...Marty Mull, swimming for host team Ohio State was first in 2:02.3. Just a hair behind him was Denver's Jack Kelso in 2:02.4. John House of Southern Cal placed third with...
...Maris, who signed his first Yankee contract two years ago for $18,000, demanded $75,000 for 1962. When Hamey suggested that $55,000 ought to pay the taxes on Roger's offseason earnings Maris decided to go back home to Ray town, Mo. and mull the whole matter over...
...Einstein. St. John's was itself colonized in 1937 by explorers from the University of Chicago, who set out to prove that the soundest modern education is immersion in the classics. To combat specialization, all St. Johnnies take the same nonelective diet. Instead of training for jobs, they mull the perennial principles in the "100 Great Books" (now actually 168). In four years, they span more than 2,000 years of "the substance of human experience," from Homer's Iliad to Einstein's Theory of Relativity...
Maybe some European colons might mull over the news from Morocco next door. After dodging French naval patrols, the Communist freighter Bulgaria docked at the Moroccan harbor of Tangier, unloaded 3,400 tons of arms, including 14,000 rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of Oudjda near the Algerian border. Though the Moroccans last week insisted that the arms were for their own use, French intelligence agents believe the shipment was paid for by Red China. If so, it is the first tangible result of the recent visit of F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas to Peking...