Word: ponderance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another move, aging President, Juho K. Paasikivi had ousted Communist Interior Minister Yrjo Leino. Elections were coming and Finns who remembered Czechoslovakia did not want a Red running the police. To force the government's hand, the Communists called a general strike. Both sides could ponder the result: nearly 40% of the workers struck, but over 60% did not. Paasikivi patched things up by appointing Communist-Liner Eino Kilpi as Interior Minister, and Finland's No. 1 woman Red, Hertta Kuusi-nen, as Minister without Portfolio. The Reds called off their half-successful strike; the kid'gloves...
Undergraduates ponder quite a bit before they pick a square card for a round girl. Miss Jones statistics reveal a clear split, within individual purchases, between Sentiment and Joke cards...
...Board of Editors of the CRIMSON. The best way to get in touch with undergraduate life at Harvard is to and graduates, just as undergraduates, who wish to keep in touch with the great Harvard living force and to comprehend its influence and service to American life, should "read, ponder, and inwardly digest" the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. The CRIMSON and the Bulletin combine to reflect the life of a great University which had a unique place in American life for more than 300 years...
...agnostics, with no reliance on the supernatural to support them, he suggests reference to the theory of Probabilities. Instead of becoming paralyzed by the fear of a coming war, they should ponder the prospect that there is "just as good a chance that we will see the beginning of an effective world government in the next ten years us that we shall witness the total obliteration of the heavily industrialized nations...
...steamed north, Harry Truman could ponder the problems. While he was away, food prices had spiraled up to such heights (see BUSINESS) that the people were numb from just talking about them. Ever since the abolition of OPA, Harry Truman had tried to solve the price-wage question by issuing statements-an expedient sometimes called "government by incantation." Soon Harry Truman might have to take some action-although with Congress away from Washington, there might be little he could accomplish...