Word: ponderer
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...back Britain against Russia, the Shah, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, with the fatalism of his race, might well ponder the philosophy of inevitability. Without much help from the Shah, Iran's fate would probably be decided at Mos cow's Big Three meeting. Nor was it likely that sweet reason would play much part in the settlements...
Last week, gravely ill in his London home, Author Smith was not flourishing. But the trivia, which comprised his life work, were completed. Well might he ponder upon the epilogue to his first volume...
...Braden policy had a fault, it was the easy assumption that because Perón was a bad authoritarian, he had no roots in the country he ruled. Last week's anticlimax proved that he did have roots, of a sort. His enemies would do well to ponder and understand Argentina before they tried again...
Basic tool of Renshaw's method is a gadget for flashing images briefly on a screen. Students are given no time to ponder details; they have to grasp the whole picture fast. Renshaw starts them off with a four-digit number, showing it for 1/50th of a second. As the students learn, the numbers get longer. A student recently reproduced a twelve-digit number (568790154123) after looking at it for less than a second...
...when he talked of the new bomb (see ATOMIC AGE), and when he spoke of the Russian entry into the war having been arranged at Potsdam. But much of what he said was immediately overshadowed by the march of events. Still, there were points for U.S. citizens to ponder...