Word: ponderator
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...face of hostile nature. When wild beasts take to marauding, he takes to hunting. Both his cunning and their savagery are depicted with such clarity, plausibility and genuineness that those fortunate enough to be in the audience can only marvel at the intrepidity of the photographers, and ponder how insolently the net prevails over the claw. The big scene shows a great herd of chang (elephants) being driven into a trap by fear of natives camouflaged as bushes...
...mankind by Dr. Frederick Charles Dietz of the University of Illinois, studying "English government finance from 1558 to 1640"; or Dr. Marion Elizabeth Blake, Converse College, scrutinizing "the Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy"; or Dr. Philip Franklin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology going to Germany and Switzerland to ponder "integral equations, orthogonal functions and their relation to almost periodic function...
...Archbishop of York, 62 and alert, spoke: Let the Churchmen ponder well these changes. The bishops will have to vote on them in March, the Church as a whole in July, and later Parliament, for in the end Parliament controls the Established Church in Egland...
...share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music, but if you don't praise his handwriting he will be cross with you." Many of these people curl the lip, reflect with Hugo...
...discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...