Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinking. They seemed to have no roots. He had stumbled upon General Education. He liked it. There were roots and there were teachers who seemed anxious to teach. It made him wish he had it to do all over again as he entered the yard to grow in wisdom. I. A. Richards spoke of the "Iliad" and the sources of western culture, communicating with a passion. Beer, the same Sam Beer who was once his Gov 1 section man in the basement of New Lecture Hall, was talking about western thought institutions in Social Sciences 2a. They never had added...
Possibly having in mind Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov's declaration that he would continue to fight some of the majority decisions of the Paris Peace Conference--such as that on on Triesto--Byrnes declared "No state should assume that it has a monopoly of virtue, or of wisdom. No state should ignore or vote the aggregate sentiments of mankind...
...Haganah and the Jews of Palestine, the entrance of European refugees is no longer a question of the wisdom or foolishness of policy, but simply something that must be accomplished. When Haganah men gather, the toast is always, "To the ships...
...Since, obviously, the future of America and the whole world hinges on the wisdom of our atomic policy, it becomes imperative to elect a President versed in atomic problems himself...
From this center of operations he sallies forth to lecture rooms, crowded with students eager to make the most of their chance to absorb some of the wisdom of the man who has been called the foremost legal philosopher in the world. The green eye shade which Professor Pound wears in the classroom has become a Harvard tradition, as have the anecdotes with which he spices his lectures...