Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jurors' Lament." Excerpt: The Justice nods, the jurors yawn, The hours tick away. But still the lawyers argue, And the case drags on its way. We came here in the prime of life, The cause of right to seek. But age is creeping on us As we ponder week by week...
THERE has always been a certain fascination in idle speculation of the past. Men wonder how their own lives would have been effected if they had gone into business rather than medicine, or they ponder on what France would be today if Napoleon had won at Waterloo. There is a sentimental romance about the process that appeals to the most prosaic...
...northern hemisphere, Dr. Einstein suggested that a temperature difference between the sun's poles and equator might be the cause of the solar cyclones. Most probably, he said, the polar regions were warmer than the equatorial regions. Having given out an idea for Mt. Wilson astronomers to ponder, he peered at tiny Planet Eros through the Mt. Wilson telescope (see above), went to Los Angeles as guest of Cinemactor Charles Chaplin to see the opening of City Lights...
Last week in Manhattan the American Society of Civil Engineers met to ponder the problem of bracing skyscrapers against the winds of heaven. Professor Clarence Richard Young, structural engineer at the University of Toronto, read the report of the Society's subcommittee No. 31, "On Wind Bracing in Steel Buildings." To be safe, said Professor Young, a builder must brace his skyscraper for a wind pressure of 20 Ib. per sq. ft. for the first 500 ft. of height. Then he must allow for an increase of 2 Ib. per sq. ft. in each additional 100 ft. of height...
Sending the Bibles was a worthy object, no doubt; but might it not have been well to ponder what Christ would have advised under the circumstances...