Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Submission with Good Grace. Mrs. Atkinson found the Russians firmly behind their rulers: "I never met a Russian who really doubted the wisdom of the men at the head of their Government nor their purity of motive nor their ultimate success. I never met an American with any knowledge of Russian politics who thought that the headmen of the Russian Government were crooked." Of course, the Russians she met did not include the many (close to 10 to 15 million, her correspondent-husband estimates) in Government prisons and conscript labor camps...
...that isolationism was impossible. But the CRIMSON, wise far beyond its knowing said "we may not necessarily agree . . . that Germany is preparing for a war of revenge . . . but when an export (General Taufflieb of the French Army) warns us that war is coming, it is undoubtedly the part of wisdom to listen...
Terror & Comfort. Lewis throws British understatement to the winds in praise of Macdonald's religious wisdom: "I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. . . . Nowhere else outside the New Testament have I found terror and comfort so intertwined...
...Over everything is an atmosphere of watchfulness, and a great hopeful ness that America will implement its leadership with wisdom and the much-needed capital goods...
King Solomon, who wrote songs about a love so strong that it made his stomach ache, was well aware that a man's emotions can make him sick. Not all of Solomon's wisdom has been forgotten. Last week, at the American College of Physicians' annual meeting in Chicago, 3,500 U.S. doctors heard, among other reports, some specific examples of how sick a man can be if he gets too wrought up over things...