Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prospective publishers will have an ample chance to glean many words of wisdom at tonight's Placement Office career conference in Eliot House...
...characteristic new look on 20th Century faces. The more production multiplies, the more scarcities become endemic. The faster science gains on disease (which, ultimately, seems always to elude it), the more the human race dies at the hands of living men. Men have never been so educated, but wisdom, even as an idea, has conspicuously vanished from the world...
...recent severe decline in prices of raw materials shows clearly the wisdom of setting up reserves to protect the company during such periods of violently fluctuating costs. If fats and oils should decline to around 10? a pound, as they easily could, the entire reserve would be used...
...leader of the gold-hunting party (Huston), whom the others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is murder and madness. The events, until the gold dust is lost by a seeming accident, have an inevitability that comes from the characters of the three men. Tim Holt plays the third, a straight role that bears the small romantic element of the plot. Only in his part...
...Wisdom of Solomon. In Vastervik, Sweden, the rent control board forbade Landlord Axel William Thunberg to evict Tenant Kustaa Joeesaar for snoring, but ordered the tenant to soundproof his bedroom...