Word: ponderance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the nation the voice of Willkie reached was something for Republicans and Democrats both to ponder. Wendell Willkie had received more votes than any other Republican candidate in history. But he could not expect even lip loyalty from all the 21,900,000 voters who had cast their ballots for him. Many were simply habitual Republican voters. Many simply disliked and distrusted Roosevelt above all else. Many a professional who had supported him was only casually concerned about anything so academic as a national issue, was far more interested in his own backyard fences...
NINE - AND DEATH MAKES TEN -Carter Dickson-Morrow ($2). Thuggee on the blacked-out Edwardic, Britain-bound with munitions and nine passengers. Lying doggo in a remote cabin, Sir Henry Merrivale, of Intelligence, hears of it by accident, snorts his way below to ponder a lady's corpse, a vanished Frenchman and duplicate thumbprints. First-rate puzzler...
...gloom over Tremont Street these days might be issuing from the Shubert or Plymouth theatres, or then again, it might just be smoke from the cigars of the two Messrs. Shuberts and Mr. Abbott as they ponder the cruel world and what it has done to their new openings...
...scrap moved out of the U. S.-Asiatic limelight, many a more innocent-looking export and import commodity moved into it more & more: cotton, textiles, rubber, tin, lumber and pulp, drugs, toys, machinery, pepper, hides, wool, silk. Businessmen in these lines had reason to ponder the course of Washington-Tokyo diplomacy. For if the U. S. went to war with Japan, an enormous two-way trade across the Pacific would...
...Census Bureau put New York City vacancies at 7.6% of all apartments (normal: 5%). Thoroughly alarmed at what Manhattan Realtor Robert H. Armstrong figures is a "25% increase in six years in available accommodations for tenants who can afford more than $50 per month," landlords and agents met to ponder methods of controlling speculative apartment builders...