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Word: ponderator (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every horseman's lips. The white-stockinged California sprinter, the favorite at post time, ran out of gas after leading for a mile, and finished ninth. But after that, he seldom ran out of the money. Your Host came back to beat such horses as Hill Prince and Ponder, had earned $384,795 for Movieman-Owner William Goetz when he broke an elbow bone in a spill at Santa Anita early this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stay of Execution | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Three days France lies dying; three hot June afternoons in 1940, Frenchmen wait, in Paris, Marseille, in New York bars, for news of impossible defeat. Waiting, some try to believe the war will not end, others that the Nazis bring peace. In dishonored France a few ponder, for the first time, what it once meant to call themselves French...

Author: By Daniel Elisberg, | Title: Sartre: Anguish and Despair | 2/28/1951 | See Source »

...book such as Rommel, the Desert Fox, reviewed in your Jan. 22 issue, leads one to ponder the imponderables of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

While most of the nation's governors settled down to ponder and parley after their exertions, New York's Tom Dewey wound up and tossed a bomb shell. He hardly had time to draw a deep breath after his third inaugural before he gave the state a breath-taking demand for emergency powers in case of atomic attack or invasion. Dewey wanted stand-by authority to: make law by proclamation, seize private homes and property, conscript manpower, ration raw materials and finished goods, set up constructions priorities, fire any public officer who refused to obey his order (including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Auguries | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Died. Warren Wright, 75, baking-powder heir (Calumet) and racing's all-time top moneywinner ($1,402,436 in 1947); in Miami Beach. His Calumet Farm stars included Whirlaway, Pensive, Armed, Citation, Coaltown, Ponder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1951 | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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