Word: ponderer
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...Francisco pressagent might well have added that when a fair is over there is frequently the devil to pay. For as often as not World's Fairs result in thumping deficits.* Last week, World Fair planners the world around had reason to ponder this fact, for one World's Fair (Paris) closed for the winter thumpingly in the red, and two others (New York and San Francisco) passed milestones in careers which they expect to turn out in equally thumping profits...
...Readers Raymond and Chittenden ponder the often cited fact that for 98 years photography has been taking over the representational function which once belonged solely to the graphic and plastic arts. Let all readers reflect that prejudice may prevent pleasure in Art's other and no less important properties - color, texture, form...
...Chicago this week the Republican National Committee will ponder and decide between the Hooverian and Landonian plans of campaign. Last week a United Press poll of committee members showed 32 in favor of the Hoover plan, 18 noncommittal, one opposed...
...minor laws, a not uncommon practice of pious U. S. judges and magistrates is to suspend punishment, put the culprit under the presumably healthful influence of the churches. Usually the results are not spectacular. Last week, however, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text of the Sunday School lesson in Magistrate Fisher...
...Enough, Mo., the town post office was discontinued. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch promptly editorialized deploring the loss, hoping post offices in Missouri would not be discontinued at Huzzah, Ink, Useful, Novelty, Peculiar, Wisdom, Ponder, Aid, Braggadocio...