Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goodly growth and ponder on the supreme reality. We learn how to win friends and influence people and we have developed a magnificent prejudice for Fascism. We have taken the voodoo out of somnambulism and replaced it with an implicit belief in that supreme bit of charlatanism, that elucidation of common sense by the application of erudite proper nouns, known as Psychology. We still like jazz but we have made it svelt and called it swing; we still like our women more or less naked but we produce a plausible excuse in the sacred name of "athlete." And while...
...prepared to see that expulsion followed by others. For a big faction of the A. F. of L. Executive Council is eager to expel the now "suspended" C. I. O. unions. Indeed, Mr. Green and the rest of the A. F. of L. Executive Council were in Miami to ponder just such action. And their temper was not improved by another cavalier peace offer from John Lewis. With tongue in cheek he purred to his Mine Workers...
Except that one must ponder if the style...
...frivolous poet appends an incomprehensible commentating clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence lamely concludes declaring that one must ponder whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made tangible that confusion is a vice and what he actually means is: "Their only consistency is inconsistency." The word "except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently" is a filler elbowishly...
...review its record and ponder its future the S. W. O. C. last week held its first national convention in Pittsburgh. Since S. W. O. C. is not a union but an organizing group headed by Philip Murray, the convention was, in effect, a policy-making body made up of nearly 1,000 delegates from Amalgamated lodges. Four out of five delegates went to the convention straight from the heat of the mills. Nearly half of them were old company union men who had helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into...