Word: ponder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict has been pressed into an indefinite future. The most hopeful of us must stop to ponder over so dark an outlook of the world's affairs...
...remarks. "We must have reality of faith, conviction that the hand of God has marked out a path for us to follow," he said. "We cannot tell what may happen. It is even conceivable that we may lose this war, and that is a thing for you to ponder well. Yet even so, great things have come from periods of loss, of chaos and of defeat...
...statements of thirty-four separate official departments, from that of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to that of the Medical School Bureau of Appointments. It would be well for those who know only their own department, or at the most their own and two or three others, to ponder on the fact that the official work of the University is divided into thirty-four branches, of which the College is only one; and then to think of the multitudinous student activities, formal and informal, and the five thousand individuals who go to make up Harvard. Is there any wonder...
Taken as a whole, the May number is a pleasure to read and to ponder on. The Harvard undergraduate does manage, month by month, to send a paper out into America which the great magazines of the country may well look upon as a youthful, sometimes crude, but always much-to-be-respected colleague
...Kornfield's Sergius, so stirred by a chromo, competent analyst of Oscar Wilde's tremendous ballad, victim of the Sicilian fruit seller and the New York policeman? It's very vivid painting of New York, very real and very unreal. Do not all these story tellers need to ponder and take to heart the doctrine which Mr. Skinner so clearly sets forth...