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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most popular hymn. It was a favorite with Gandhi, who believed that mere repetition of the name of the god Ram was an effective means of banishing fear. Gandhi added two lines of his own to the song: "Ishvar [Hindustani for God] and Allah are both thy names; give wisdom to all." Gandhi encouraged the use of the amended version to promote Hindu-Moslem harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Forbidden Song | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...British advocate of defensive warfare-had been somewhat flattened out by the success of the German Panzers, but talking with the generals Captain Liddell Hart was in his element. For one thing, most of them had read his books. Once they opened up they talked well-and with the wisdom of hindsight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Defeated | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...their strongest associates. The global outlook of Mr. Dulles in Albany closely matches the views of Secretary Marshall in Washington. In the past year, the CRIMSON has objected to the Administration's policy reversal on Palestine, and its new-found warmth for Franco. The CRIMSON has also doubted the wisdom of a peace-time draft. However, it is unlikely that Mr. Dewey's advisers would lead him to change these unfortunate policies. At the same time, Mr. Wallace's ideas on foreign affairs must be rejected; they have degenerated into a stubborn apology for Soviet Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For President: Truman | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...supremacy of the Faculty, he continued, makes Harvard great. "It does what its collective wisdom dictates, and can overrule any dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students' IQ Beats Fathers'---Bender | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...rose to the top of the traditionally conservative Church of England not through compromise or worldly wisdom but because his abilities simply could not be ignored. Those who doubted his rise to Primate thought he would be Prime Minister instead. An Oxford don at 22 after a double First, he became a headmaster at 28, bishop at 39, archbishop at 47, and the sparkplug of so many social, educational and spiritual reforms that his sudden death at 63 took away a man uniquely fitted to give religious leadership in the crucial first decade after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prelate & Prophet | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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