Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FtilSp-Miller, a onetime hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation of the con structive wisdom and beauty of faith." To contribute to that renaissance, Author FtilSp-Miller has selected five saints (of the 25,000 generally recognized by Roman Catholics) and made their five lives into a book, The Saints That Moved the World (Crowell...
...impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...
Irrepressible Jimmy Doolittle had a retort to that one too: "If delay is the objective, such a suggestion will attain it. If sound, prompt action is the objective, the experience of the Baker Board indicates that you may get something less than wisdom...
George Bernard Shaw's last remaining tooth-a wisdom tooth-had been plucked by a pair of dental pliers, reported a London Times correspondent...
...insane extravagances . . . unexpected parsimony . . . enormous splendor, which is a sham . . . horrible squalor hidden behind the scenery . . . vast schemes abandoned because of some caprice . . . secrets which everybody knows and no one speaks of. There are even two or three honest advisers. These are the court fools, who speak the deepest wisdom in puns, lest they should be taken seriously. They grimace, and tear their hair privately, and weep...