Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high promises at election time, Leader Lucas' sunny discourse was actually an abject confession of defeat. Cried the leftrwing Americans for Democratic Action: "A flat betrayal of the Democratic platform." Anti-Truman editorialists leaped to their typewriters to crow, and to praise Harry Truman's new-found wisdom ("The President has at last seen fit to acknowledge that politics is the art of the possible," said the Washington Post...
...weeks Chairman David Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission had been on the congressional grill. Members had questioned him and his aides about Government-financed scholarships for Communists, about security precautions, about the wisdom of shipping radioactive isotopes abroad. They wanted absolute answers to many questions which could not be absolutely answered...
...seem to sum up everything that has been written before it. A lack of focus weakens it, a discursiveness, and an argumentative mood about the anti-coyote policy in Washington. But at its best, it reads the way oldtimers talk, with a fine earthy mixture of courtesy and superstition, wisdom and independence...
...livestock were "then thought not . . . ill musique." But, unlike most antiquarians, he never allowed nostalgia to blind him to the bad aspects of the good old days: "The conversation and habits of those times were as starcht as their bands and square beards; and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit even in their sermons...
John Philip Emerson '50 of Winthrop House received two awards of $100 each for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and for a translation into Latin of a passage from John Ruskin's "The Crown of Wild Olive...