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Word: ponders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...masks. At their head was Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, dentist of Dallas, Tex. Shrewd businessman, he smiled, wondered if all those behind him had paid their dues. There were floats: "Miss 100% America" and "Little Red School-house." During the next two days, the mighty Kloncilium met to ponder on next year's schemes, probably to re-elect Imperial Wizard Evans for another four-year term. The Klan program now has four aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Washington Splurge | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

Several items last week made intelligent physicians ponder their relations to the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intelligence | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...viewpoint of the men who fought against Washington, from the viewpoint of "Old England" to whom the Revolution was, at the time, not an epoch-making event but simply a regrettable incident. Polite answers from the U. S. historians present greeted these remarks, but minds went back to ponder the proposition that bias is best in history. ... It was a reactionary proposition, quite out of line with the best liberal pedagogy of the day and with the ironic resurrection of "mauve" and "dreadful" decades now so popular in the U. S. But without bias, Mr. Baldwin's listeners reflected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bias Best | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...would not even ponder...

Author: By Leighton Rollins., | Title: Encounters | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

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