Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trainer Max Hirsch had it all figured out: the horse to beat was slow-starting Stymie (TIME, Nov. 4); the way to do it was to hold back as long as Stymie did, then beat him in the stretch run. Sometimes riders see the wisdom of their instructions at the time, but change their minds later. Daring little Eddie Arcaro is the best rider in the business because he attunes himself to each horse's temperament and capacity, knows just when to ask its best. At the first turn, Stymie and Assault were 15 lengths behind the leaders. When...
...opening ceremonies, the only reference to God was made by the President of the United States. Said Baptist Harry Truman at the close of his address: "May Almighty God, in His infinite wisdom and mercy, guide us and sustain us as we seek to bring peace everlasting to the world. With His help we shall succeed...
High heat and (perhaps mercifully) low light have dominated the debate on the wisdom of Harvard's quasi-conversion to coeducation. Is it perhaps not time to judge the matter, dispassionately, on the bare essentials...
...that he did not court adulation, he seemed unfailingly appreciative of applause and good wishes. When he was given an honorary degree, along with Field Marshal .Viscount Montgomery, at Cambridge, the Public Orator said of him (in Latin): "The truth is he himself showed such an example of kindly wisdom, such a combination of serious purpose, humanity and courtesy that the others soon had no thought in their minds save to labor with one common will for the success of all." His tact, humor and sincerity prompted a British novelist to say: "No American visiting this country...
Castlereagh's power-balancing, which looked so evil to so many of his contemporaries, to Author Nicolson now looks like the path of wisdom. The deals of Europe's Big Three of that day brought most of Europe peace, if not necessarily a just one, for 100 years...