Word: ponderer
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After a quick weed-out by a staff of professional readers, B-o-M's five judges ponder from twelve to 20 manuscripts a month (of the 275 or so to be published). Pollster George Gallup is a member of B-o-M's board of directors nowadays, conducts surveys after the books have been sent out to see "how the members liked them." But Founder Scherman sternly warns against the easy assumption that Dr. Gallup ("He knows more about advertising than any man in the U.S.") influences in any way the judges' choice...
Modern prose might use new collectives for professional people and others. I suggest an ibid of historians, a ponder of scientists, a scathe of bureaucrats...
...barracks afire. Only 15 planes were claimed as destroyed on the ground, but Lieut. General Earle Partridge of the Fifth Air Force said: "I am sure this attack has reduced considerably their immediate capability of striking at U.N. forces from Korean bases. Our show of power may make them ponder...
...every horseman's lips. The white-stockinged California sprinter, the favorite at post time, ran out of gas after leading for a mile, and finished ninth. But after that, he seldom ran out of the money. Your Host came back to beat such horses as Hill Prince and Ponder, had earned $384,795 for Movieman-Owner William Goetz when he broke an elbow bone in a spill at Santa Anita early this year...
Three days France lies dying; three hot June afternoons in 1940, Frenchmen wait, in Paris, Marseille, in New York bars, for news of impossible defeat. Waiting, some try to believe the war will not end, others that the Nazis bring peace. In dishonored France a few ponder, for the first time, what it once meant to call themselves French...