Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prof. de Haas--Don't lose sight of the wisdom amid his wisecracks. Make any discussion comprehensive and do it all the Dutch...
...next four years, almost certainly, time would revise the Roosevelt Cabinet, in which four members are in their 70s. But generally the Administration team would probably stay intact. The triumphs which lay within the grasp of Term IV were those of maturity, experience, wisdom...
...going to fight you like hell," Regent H. J. Lutcher Stark told Rainey in 1940 when the latter refused to remove three members of the faculty without a hearing. "I doubt the wisdom and propriety of you, as president of the University, urging or suggesting that a member of the Board of Regents refrain from doing anything whatsoever," wrote Regent D. F. Strickland in 1943 to Texas' president. Under the Board's rules a university president is supposed to be the professional adviser to the Board, but for several months Texas' Regents excluded President Rainey from their...
...play's faults-an overextended first act, an undernourished last one, some rubbishy minor characters, some razzle-dazzle farce-are pretty well buried underneath its fun. Underneath it, too, lies the hint given by many humorists that wackiness may be the last word in wisdom. Harvey, says Elwood, is greater than Einstein-Einstein did away with time & space, but Harvey does away with time, space-and objections...
...doubt the forces of progress were on Professor Angold's side., Besides, the British gypsies were more assimilated than most other gypsy stocks. But progress and assimilation might have a stiff tussle with a people which still preserved its folk wisdom in a six-line catechism: Miro dado, soskei shan creminor kaired? (My father, why were worms made?) Miro chabo, that puo-baulor might jib by hailing lende. (My son, that moles might live by eating them.) Miro dado, soskei shan puvo-baulor kaired? (My father, why were moles made?) Miro chabo, that tute ta mande might...