Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopper began to look like Mrs. Peterkin's cup of coffee, into which she accidentally put salt (in Lucretia P. Hale's Peter kin Papers'). Family and friends added one ingredient after another, hoping to make Mrs. Peterkin's coffee taste better. A lady of wisdom finally suggested that Mrs. Peterkin just pour a fresh cup. That solution was not apt to occur to Congressmen-they usually prefer something more laborious...
...full division of Church and State is not yet axiomatic in contemporary American political practice. Periodically the wisdom accumulated over 200 years of democratic experience is questioned by sincere individuals who would exaggerate free religious enterprise into a form of state-help for diverse religious activities. The latest of these experiments in extended state participation in the spiritual field, and by far the most painful to evaluate, reached its unsatisfactory climax in the Ewing Township Decision, rendered last week by the Supreme Court. Split into a five-and-four grouping, the Court nonetheless upheld a New Jersey law which grants...
...five-man majority, Justice Hugo Black proclaimed eloquently and forcefully the wisdom of separating church & state. Cried Black: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government . . . can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. . . . No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions ... whatever form they may adopt...
...British failure to put Greece back on its political and economic feet was inevitable. All the British ever had a chance to do, or ever tried to do, was to maintain a minimum of order until the Greeks found leaders of sufficient wisdom and moderation to govern. The roster of current Greek political figures holds little hope for the future...
...that old hands in Washington gave it only a 50-50 chance; both U.S. and British navies had counseled against it. That it succeeded, Morison concludes, proves that it was "fundamentally sound and wise." But, he adds, the difference between success and failure is sometimes less a matter of wisdom than of inches in a torpedo's course or "a few yards deflection in the fall of a.salvo...