Word: ponderator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven Handicap starters paraded to the post last week, the crowd of 65,000 was betting the all-powerful Calumet Farm entry-Citation, Ponder and Two Lea-as though it was money in the bank. With the Calumet trio at 1-to-3, Noor was a lukewarm 6-to-1 second choice. At that, it seemed a surprisingly short price considering the opposition. But as it turned out, Longden knew best...
...from way back, was flying at the far turn. At the head of the homestretch, he collared Calumet's pace-setting filly Two Lea-at the eighth pole he pulled away. Citation, closing well under his burden of 132 Ibs., led the Calumet varsity as Two Lea and Ponder carried the devil-red & blue silks across the finish line in formation...
Ladies, for our should as well as yours, do ponder this truth. H. A. Creeby Ferbes...
...Tuesday conferences with his three assistant superintendents, he was a casual but cautious chairman. "Let me ponder that for a while, fellows," he would say when a ticklish problem came up. Often, chin in hand, he would seem to be thinking out loud ("Now, I'm just supposing that . . ."). Then, when he had weighed all the facts, he would make his decision...
...Since then, both] the British and the Canadians [have test-flown] large jet transports and are now peddling them to the airlines of the world. We might well ponder the question of how American aviation got caught flatfooted...