Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that college stood primarily for education, and we knew, in a rather vague way; what was meant by education. Some of us came here to carry on the traditions of the medieval clerk, to lay aside the vanities of the world, intent upon enriching the mind with the wisdom that is found in books. Some of us came here "to live", as our present-day novelists would put it. But the majority of us came here to seek education by choosing what was most happy and wholesome in our books and in our companionships...
Citizens could understand the wisdom of averting a Pullman-porter strike at a time when hosts of potent politicians were boarding overnight trains for Kansas City and Houston...
...sweater woven from gold links. Lady Lindy flies in a trimotored Fokker, equipped with pontoons and two radio sets, while the Diamond Queen has chosen the single-motored Columbia, trans-atlantic veteran with no pontoons and no radio. Backing Miss Earhart are the advice of Commander Byrd, the promoting wisdom of George Palmer Putnam and the wealth of Mrs. Frederick Guest (TIME, June 11), but Miss Boll's sponsor is Charles A. Levine, of uncertain reliability. Lady Lindy knows she wants to fly to England, while the Queen of Diamonds would fly anywhere if she could lead her rival...
...circumstance which may have explained some of the garrulity with which the youth fulfilled it. Extracts: "If I have the personal qualities requisite for the Kenneth Sterling Day award-if I have a sound moral character-it is because my parents and my religion have taught me the wisdom of not having an immoral character...
...shows a young pioneer couple. The man has a gun, the woman a baby. Side by side, they stand looking in the direction of the possible peril. The park around the statue is neat and luxuriant. No other U. S. village the size of Elmwood has yet shown the wisdom or the ability to adorn itself so well...