Word: ponderance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieberman found that 19th-Century youngsters were prone to ponder morosely on such subjects as Hypocrisy, Temptation, Time, Death. Their poetic style, though reflective and unhurried, was stiff, conventional, smacked of grown-up inspiration. Far from conventional were the poems that Dr. Lieberman collected from classrooms of his pupils (aged 12 to 16) for the 1941 anthology...
President Roosevelt had to ponder. But the hour was growing late: the U.S. had already contracted to spend at least $22,000,000,000 in fiscal 1942-some $9,000,000,000 more than it will raise with the aid of new taxes...
...opinions, advice, ideas, tips, plain and fruity gossip. His regulated mind coldly assayed strengths and frailties, measured promise against performance. Night after night he trotted back to the calm of the White House, puzzled over his notes; through whole days read books, articles, memoranda. He tried to weigh objectives, ponder human values, disregard individual personalities. Finally he drew his conclusions, drafted three plans basically similar...
Last week the jurymen listened to the last argument, retired to ponder the long dim trail of the Wilson Stricklands, the conflicting claim of Allen Vince's clan...
...young P-40 pilots and their senior officers do not smile when they ponder the possibilities of air attack on the Eastern seaboard. Their job is to think about it and prepare for it as best they can. They know the Atlantic routes by which attack could come, whatever the cost in enemy planes and pilots...