Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Past. They ponder the Constitution of 1789, the immemorial principles of English Common Law, Roman Law, social ethics dating from Moses, previous decisions of the court. This is the oracle of Precedent...
Secretary was forced to ponder over a new bill to stop the illegal selling of drinks after midnight...
Time is wanting time to reflect, to ponder, to dream; idle hours when fancy sets the spirit free. Can one imagine Plato or Shakespeare in a managership competition? The thought is absurd, and yet just as absurd is the ceaseless round of petty activities that make up "college life...
...winter nights, outside the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, cabdrivers shuffle and swing their arms. It is dull for them. The people they have brought thither, wait to remove, are not even sports; they are music-lovers who give small tips, cold-eyed elegants in evening dress, or critics that ponder, as they read the meter, such terms as "a good performance, well sung," "gala night," "once more with a brilliant cast . . ." wishing to Heaven they could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that...
There is an old adage that figures never lie, but that liars frequently "figure." Few readers stop to ponder statistical articles in the press, to which headline writers sometimes give a peculiar interpretation. As a result, the public is misinformed by the presentation of half-truths...