Word: sagely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some day I too will be sage...
...Gold Rush) is the last survivor. So great is his influence still that when etiquette seemed to demand that Prime Minister Tanaka and his whole Cabinet must resign with Privy Councillor Uchida, Cabinet Members hastened to the garden of Prince Saonji respectfully to wait the opinion of that wrinkled sage...
...Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, New York's Governor's wife L.H.D. Eliza Kellas, Emma Willard School principal LL.D...
...marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
...longer may the sage of Sewickley ruh his hands and gloat over the Bulldog as he loses his grip. We have demonstrated our ability to apply mathematical formulae to the science of the diamond, while exhorting our team-mates with quotations from the scriptures and the classics to play better ball. Harvard's bitter chalico may perhaps be sweetened by her realization that she must adhere more rigidly to that musty proverb that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." --Yale News...