Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about this time that Gladstone formed his fourth and last Ministry. Asquith at that time had been a Liberal M. P. for East Fife for six years. Gladstone plucked him greedily, made him Home Secretary; and his wisdom and faith in the young man's ability was amply rewarded; for many agree that Mr Asquith made the best Home Secretary with which Britain was ever blest...
...Enter to grow in Wisdom'! Come, Blunderbrats and Wild Asses Bask in the beams from learning's light And be culturally sunburned, if you can't be tanned...
...looks easy to say to France: "We wont across now you come across"; but there is more to it than that. This attitude involves the fundamental fallacy of demanding gold where there is none, and of antagonizing a friend and benefactor by an impossible severity. If there is wisdom in Washington, the United States will foster the restoration of French finance as the first condition of repayment, and tax reduction at home will be left entirely to the slower but surer policy of retrenchment...
...inspired precepts, according to the latest issue. Among other duties, man is to "help and protect the weak, the suffering, the young, and the old, and dumb animals"--a notable climax! Who will hereafter revolt, when in his youth he is taught to "respect all who have more wisdom, and to reverence all that is good...
Memel. "More recently we have seen an admirable piece of international work accomplished in the settlement of the Government of the territory of Memel, to which our Chairman tonight so splendidly contributed by his tact and wisdom. That was a controversy which had troubled Europe for two or three years and had defied the ordinary diplomatic methods of settlement...