Word: ponderator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which would give the Law plenty of chance to work its baleful ecects. Now that the Supreme Court has decided, the only sure way to relieve New York's public schools of this law is action by the state legislature. There has been plenty of time to ponder the implications of their bill, and perhaps now that its faults have been made clear by many sources, the state legislators will repeal...
...strange film even by the standards of Japan (where it drew only enough business to meet its cost of $140,000), Rashomon opens in a ruined 8th century temple, where a woodcutter and a Buddhist priest, taking shelter from a lashing rain, ponder a bewildering crime that has shaken their faith in men. As they recount the crime to a cynical passerby, flashbacks picture the testimony at the trial and four differing re-enactments of the violent incident itself...
After a quick weed-out by a staff of professional readers, B-o-M's five judges ponder from twelve to 20 manuscripts a month (of the 275 or so to be published). Pollster George Gallup is a member of B-o-M's board of directors nowadays, conducts surveys after the books have been sent out to see "how the members liked them." But Founder Scherman sternly warns against the easy assumption that Dr. Gallup ("He knows more about advertising than any man in the U.S.") influences in any way the judges' choice...
Modern prose might use new collectives for professional people and others. I suggest an ibid of historians, a ponder of scientists, a scathe of bureaucrats...
...barracks afire. Only 15 planes were claimed as destroyed on the ground, but Lieut. General Earle Partridge of the Fifth Air Force said: "I am sure this attack has reduced considerably their immediate capability of striking at U.N. forces from Korean bases. Our show of power may make them ponder...