Word: ponderer
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...Portalet Fortress, gouged into a narrow chasm-side of the deep Pyrenees, they would read, ponder documents, peer out of windows through which-the sun never shines. Twice each day, in solitude, they would be permitted to pace the terrace above the gloomy, turreted fort...
...nightmare retreat of the British Army across France and the howling hell of Dunkirk, the U.S. Army found a pregnant sermon for its officers to ponder. For the past month the Army has heard that sermon delivered by a man who had come through the awful works and could tell how. Pink-cheeked, 45-year-old British Brigadier Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, D.S.O., M.C., returned to Washington last week (and set off forthwith for the Carolina maneuvers) after a 30-day lecture tour in U.S. Army posts. Total of his officer audiences: close...
...Duce jutted his jaw and was silent. Three times the crowd gave the usual ovation, then left Benito Mussolini free to ponder whether Fascism was likely to pass on, pass out, or pass away...
...student demonstration last week was touched off by word from a meeting of the Southern University Conference (41 leading colleges of the South). Meeting in Birmingham, Ala. to ponder Georgia's grievances against its Governor, representatives of the other colleges found a clearly evident case of political interference: Talmadge's ouster of University of Georgia's Dean Walter D. Cocking on the charge (denied) that the dean had advocated coeducation of Negroes and whites (TIME, July 28). Though the Governor himself showed up to harangue the conferees, the Conference dropped Georgia without a dissenting vote...
...Lieberman found that 19th-Century youngsters were prone to ponder morosely on such subjects as Hypocrisy, Temptation, Time, Death. Their poetic style, though reflective and unhurried, was stiff, conventional, smacked of grown-up inspiration. Far from conventional were the poems that Dr. Lieberman collected from classrooms of his pupils (aged 12 to 16) for the 1941 anthology...