Word: ponderator
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...Italy's Foreign Minister and Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano has an opportunity to ponder the mores of his enemies. Last week his Telegrafo of Leghorn found in ladies' pants the common denominator of the Axis' foes...
...first seven days were days of mystery. Citizens of the outside world could only ponder the oddities of totalitarian propaganda; look at German pictures of happy byplay in captured villages; muse on Russian geography-Dvinsk here, Pinsk there, Minsk in between; and take their pick between diametric optimism...
...Congress had been consulted. If the time comes soon when the President asks for repeal or amendment of the Neutrality Act in order to arm U.S. merchant ships,* Congress will have had a chance to ponder the issue. For the President had made it plain that it was not simply a matter of delivering goods to Britain and Britain's colonies. It was a question of keeping the world's sea lanes open for the passage of such raw materials as rubber and tin, which are essential to U.S. defense. Many a Congressman who had thought the historic...
...United States," he says, "see Japan as a conquering Power. . . . But Japan sees the whole process from the inside of what, to her, seems to be a vicious and choking circle. . . . Those Americans who rashly believe that Japan could be beaten in war swiftly and with ease should ponder upon Japanese national psychology and upon the quality and temperament of Japan's leadership...
Last week General Hershey went to New Haven, faced 72 professors and students from 20 New England colleges who had been convened by Yale and the International Student Service to ponder the Draft and Defense. Bluntly informing them that the Army needed college men as leaders and meant to draft them, General Hershey declared: "I do not think there is anything sacred about a ... college education. . . . The thing that frightens me is the 'business as usual' cry. . . . Going to school because you have nothing else to do is last year...