Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Browning didn't write it. In fact, no one wrote these words of comfort and wisdom. So the student is left to shift upon his own devices...
...nothing. Their much vaunted liberties have acted like the juice of the poppy plant, and put, them to sleep. An opinion prevails among many of the Satellites that the man who thinks is a depraved animal. Thus, shunning depravity, they fall blindly into it. Superficial cleverness passes current for wisdom. A spark is mistaken for true fire. They babble of many things, but ponder few. And so the great problems of mankind pass lightly over their untroubled heads, while they chatter about the trifles of yesterday and today...
...wisdom of taking arms against all who have said a word in this Advocate and Lampoon controversy seems doubtful. Ia yesterday's column, the CRIMSON took issue with a reprinted Transcript editorial. Nobody denies that the Advocate published certain things lacking in good taste which, when brought into the limelight, appeared rather badly. In view, of this, instead of attacking the Transcript's comment resentfully and again bewailing the suppression of the Advocate as unjust and futile, the CRIMSON would have done well to get the matter drop. The subject was in the first place difficult to handle with dignity...
...turmoil of French politics subsided as quickly as it began. The events of last week, incomprehensible though they seem, were, viewed in the glowing after-light, the outcome of logic and political wisdom, no matter how salutary in effect they...
...this is the readiness of the public to purchase securities at such times, plus the relatively high prices reached by securities when interest rates are low. The U. S. is apparently moving into another such merger period as 1900-06, except that today enthusiasm is more tempered with wisdom of ex- perience. But the figures are larger, except for the mammoth Steel Corporation merger of 1901. There are still few other billion-dollar corporations, yet in the last few years a large number have crept up to within striking distance of the billion-dollar class...