Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertaking humanitarian programs is not the concern of the Ford Foundation alone. The American people donate an average of $5,600,000,000 annually to charitable organizations. Less than 3 per cent of this money comes from Ford and other big foundations like it--Rockefeller, Carnegie, Russell Sage, Guggenheim, and approximately sixty others with more than $10,000,000 in capital. Still more comes from small endowments and outright gifts from individuals...
Tolstoy always roused warring feelings in Chekhov. He could wholeheartedly write, "I have never loved anyone as much as him," but the sage's moralizing struck him as twaddle. "Old men have always been prone to see the end of the world," he wrote. "The hell with the philosophy of the great of this world...
Smoke billowed forth from the Sage Building on Church St. yesterday, as fire ravaged the five business establishments located there. About 500 persons gathered to witness the Cambridge firemen battle the blaze, which left behind damages estimated unofficially...
Clocker Spanielle joined his fellows at the dog track yesterday. After losing heavily on John J. Jr. and Spider Rock at Buffolk Downs, the sage decided to try his luck with the greyhounds of Raynham Park...
These facts were turned up in a careful survey conducted by Presbyterian Minister-Sociologist Dr. Samuel Blizzard, 40, who was commissioned two years ago by the Russell Sage Foundation to collaborate with Union Theological Seminary in "A Study of the Functions of the Parish Minister." Dr. Blizzard sent out some 1,600 detailed questionnaires to seven "panels of informants" in all but one (Nevada) of the 48 states, in every economic and social area, and from more than 20 major denominations...