Word: ponderated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week rated Hill Prince two pounds bet ter than Middleground in assigning weights fa a handicap at Aqueduct. This reversed his pre season rating of Middleground at 126 Ibs., Hil Prince at 124. *On the eve of the 1949 Kentucky Derby, which Calumet Trainer Ben Jones won with Ponder, a TIME correspondent asked Jones which of his two-year-olds he thought might be his best Derby prospect in 1950. Jones guessed that All Blue might be (TIME, May 30, 1949). Although he came around too late to run in any of the triple crown events, All Blue...
...same combination of anxiety and uncertainty had driven little groups of U.S. townspeople together from Maine to California, to ponder what should be done in case of atomic attack. Few of them had either Tom Dewey's budget, General Clay, or a solicitous phone call from Washington. About the best they could do was talk it over with the police and fire departments, draw up a sheaf of diagrams, pore over what they read in the newspapers, and wait uneasily until Washington was ready to tell them what...
Last week a brave band of experts and laymen met in New York City to ponder the problem. They called themselves the Foundation for the Emotionally Unstable, suggested that the term "emotionally unstable" is more enlightening and less derogatory than the old names. The foundation's first job: to collect what little is known about the emotionally unstable. Then would come research into causes, treatments, cures. Finally, the foundation workers hope, both government and private institutions can be set up to give protection and care to the emotionally unstable before their unbraked emotions get them into trouble with...
...Sooner than radio listeners became of him. As he had done a year ago with Derby Winner Ponder, gravel-voiced Radio Caller Clem McCarthy overlooked Middleground's stretch rush, barely got him under the wire...
Said Jockey Longden: "We just sighted the wire and set sail." It was fast sailing. With a 22-lb. pull in the weights, Noor (whose 110-lb. package was 3 Ibs. less than Two Lea's and 14 less than Ponder's) had run the mile-and-a-quarter in two minutes flat-just a fifth of a second off the world record and 1⅓ seconds faster than the track record set by Seabiscuit in the same race ten years...