Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permitted [liceat], is it convenient [deceat], is it opportune [expediat to adhere to these requests [for the dogmatic definition of the Assumption]?" The letter explicitly asked the "Venerable Brothers" if, "according to your wisdom and prudence, you believe that the Bodily Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin be established and defined as a dogma of faith and if this would be in accord with the wishes of your clergy and people." The Pope is reported to have said that the "answers, in their great majority, are favorable...
...ending of enmities we celebrate. This tablet to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaims a growth of enduring friendship and a rebirth of brotherhood between two great nations upon whose wisdom, valor and fortitude the future of humanity in no small degree depends...
...only wisdom we can hope to acquire
...wisdom of humility...
...Commander in Chief, not only of our armed forces, but of our generation." It is also Sherwood's contention, and he does much to document it, that in the war years Harry Hopkins used his vast, F.D.R.-given power wisely. Later historians may question the wisdom, but they will not be able to question the power. Nor will any historian of the Roosevelt era be able to ignore this book...