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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full-Dress Appeal. After more than 30 buildings had been destroyed, orthodox Doukhobors began to wonder about the wisdom of continued submission. Said Peter Postnikoff: "I refuse to hit any man. But maybe I'll forget my teachings." Last week, orthodox Doukhobors finally asked for action. Extra constables hustled to the fertile Kootenay Valley. The bag by week's end: 14 Sons of Freedom arrested, seven sent to jail for terms ranging from six months to a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Trouble in Kootenay | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Said Margaret's mother: "I prayed very hard before she came that she would have an extra amount of wisdom, and it's really there. . . . When I used to sing nursery rhymes to her, she would try to pick out the notes on the piano. Then on St. Patrick's Day last year, she crawled up on the piano bench and played Mary Had a Little Lamb all the way through. I phoned a couple of our friends so they could hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigy | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

More Scholarship? Speaking for the liberalizers, the Churchman's Editor Guy Emery Shipler joined the deeper issue-between those Episcopalians who emphasize their individual, Protestant conscience and those who believe, as Bishop Manning and the Anglo-Catholics do, in the superior wisdom and authority of "the holy Catholic Church." Editorialized Dr. Shipler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ecclesiastical Renos | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Church could eliminate scandals too!) Catholics ought to be respectful of this work while they are catching up on a road where they have too long lagged behind. Mutual respect and good relations having been established with the analysts, Catholics can then hope to impart some of the wisdom which they feel is their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Freud & the Catholic Church | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...nothing about the vast realms of modern science, nothing about the intricacies of research, or even about the qualifications making for success in teaching. If Columbia can commit this absurdity, why not every other university in the land? No longer are educators to strive to grow in breadth and wisdom in order that they may be called to fill the seats of the mighty in education. Theirs is to labor in obscurity at salaries appropriate to obscurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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