Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present pulling and straining of the Soviet satellites, anxious to get into the only prospect that offers Europe hope, attests the wisdom of the latter argument-from a. Soviet standpoint. Where will Poland find a market for her coal? How can the Russians pay Czechoslovakia for quality factory products? When Molotov at Paris broke Europe along the Stettin-Trieste line, most of the best insurance risks, most of 'he countries with high labor productivity, were not on Molotov's side of the line. If Central and Western Europe begin to revive with U.S. help, Molotov may well find...
Pierre Monteux, French-born conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was seeing through a beefsteak, darkly. While watching his first baseball game in Hancock, Me. he was bopped in the eye by a foul ball. But along with the shiner he acquired wisdom: "Now I understand why baseball is so popular. Even when you only watch it, you are part of the game...
...Company's supply ship Nascopie sailed from Montreal this week on her annual 11,000-mile voyage through the Arctic, she carried, along with 34 passengers and a cargo of necessities for northland Mountie posts, 1,200 copies of a 28-page pamphlet entitled The Book of Wisdom for Eskimo. In Eskimo-land, a copy of the pamphlet will be given to every family within reach...
...Printed in English and in Eskimo syllables (a system of sound-writing which looks something like shorthand), it has helpful hints on how to collect family allowances from the Government, and it tells how to avoid hunger ("aim carefully when you shoot"). But most of The Book of Wisdom is concerned with helping the Eskimo to keep healthy and clean. Excerpts...
...Davidson, 41, president of Schenectady's Union College. Said he, at the University of Buffalo: "Americans need to be warned about . . . words and ideas which look much alike but have different effects. For example, Americans often confuse size with importance . . . speed with progress . . . money with wealth . . . authority with wisdom . . . religion with theology . . . excitement with pleasure...