Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's events brought Premier Daladier plenty besides Hitler to ponder. First there was the domestic situation. The existence of a French Premier, never too secure, becomes most critical at Budget time. France's budget, under consideration by the Senate for two weeks, comes up again for discussion by the Deputies this week. It cannot be balanced for 1953: as passed by the Senate last week it contained a deficit of $156,710,400. French Socialists under long-nosed Léon Blum served notice on the Radical-Socialist* Government of Premier Daladier that they would not support...
...closing hours of the academic year, becalmed in the brief time before the storm of examinations, the Freshman class has an opportunity for thought and reflection over the events of the last nine months; a few of its thinkers will ponder for a moment on that Institution, the Freshman Adviser. Some have formed a close friendship with the man who was set to guide them; others have been helped by his advice; a considerable number have been deceived by his honeyed praise of this or that course; and the great majority will have forgotten him by the time they purchase...
...palace, would quickly shed his indignation, and an accession of peace might come to the President. But the angry Mr. Curley has drawn the veil from the rusty joints of patronage, extremely disquieting to public confidence, exactly at the psychological moment. Before his next outburst, the mayor might profitably ponder the tale of the man who killed the goose, and learn what happened to the golden eggs...
What Chancellor-elect Chase plans for N. Y. U. he did not announce last week. He will, perforce, ponder its growth in 101 years, from the time that Samuel Finley Breese Morse there developed the telegraph and Professor John William Draper took the first photograph by sunlight. In 22 years under Chancellor Brown the enrolment grew from 4,175 to nearly 40,000 (including part-time students); the faculty from 282 to 1,800; the schools and colleges from eight to 12, including the important Graduate School of Business Administration. N. Y. U.'s endowment grew in proportion...
...suspicion of having sold an automobile testimonial (TIME, Dec. 19), many an observer reflected that if ever it was logical for anyone to make a living from athletic ability, it was logical for Babe Didrikson, expert exponent of all sports. Last week, while the A. A. U. pondered her case, she announced that they need ponder no longer, that she would turn professional out & out. The Southern A. A. U. soon announced that she was exonerated, reinstated. But logical Babe Didrikson closed her thin lips, shook her long jaw, stuck to her decision. She said she wanted to write about...