Word: ponderer
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...Tower of London) trading was quiet among disgruntled British rubber men. They established a price which hung close to 10¼ pence per pound, virtually the equivalent of the U. S. average price of 21 cents (since one pence equals two cents). Londoners, therefore, had ample time to ponder and explain why the Stevenson Plan will be scrapped...
Like all its inhabitants and all its swift and luminous companions, this earth must discover an eventual disaster. How the disaster will arrive, and when, is a matter for astronomers to ponder. Dr. James Hopwood Jeans, famed British astronomer, Secretary of the Royal Society, pondered; last week, in London, he spoke sadly of the dwindling universe. Said...
...sense-a feminine intuition that guided his financial darts and swoops. His own explanation was the original definition of the verb "to speculate." He said: "Analyze the word and you'll find that it comes from the latin speculare, to observe. According to the dictionary, it means to ponder a subject in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate...
Inauguration ceremonies were held on the Luneta, one of the heights overlooking Manila Bay. After the oath, Governor General Stimson made a speech, portions of which his small, smart, brown-skinned audience took away behind impassive countenances to ponder upon...
...been incautiously heralded so often since that it pleases her to ponder a question which few painters would be brave enough to frame: "What do they think about these things when they go home to supper?" The people who stare at her pictures of apples, pears, eggplants, leaves, stalks, high buildings, rivers and tremendous flowers, interest her enormously. She, like George Bellows and unlike almost every other U. S. artist, has never gone abroad and doesn't want to; she paints all day on the 30th floor of the Shelton Hotel, Manhattan; her face is austere and beautiful; she does...