Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...footprints in the sand, while a fascinated bird followed the strange human track. He produced a mad catalogue of patched-together devices constructed on such engineering principles as this: "The strength of a piece of string, as of a chain, lies in its weakest part, and surely it is wisdom to cut this out and tie in a stronger piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house fitted with Robinson gadgets. One of them: a baby-washer made of revolving stands...
Henry Agard Wallace, visiting Georgia's Governor Ellis G. Arnall and his son (see cut), took his Vice Presidential toothache to an Atlanta dentist's chair, declined gas, interrupted the dentistry six times to dispense autographs. Said the dentist, who repaired a Wallace wisdom tooth, "It is in alignment, and therefore useful . . . one of the few I've ever seen where the wisdom tooth served its purpose of chewing...
From the University of Chicago and elsewhere among the fellow spirits of Robert Maynard Hutchins has come a steady attack on the clutter of "undisciplined" schools and "practical" courses sprung up in Dewey's name, a steady insistence that U.S. education return to the fundamental wisdom of the "best books...
Reliance on ancient wisdom was the trademark of the Middle Ages. It was the only education possible for a continent which had forgotten science and was just emerging from a state of barbarism...
...after a year in England the Beards came home, to a lifetime study of why U.S. wealth and wisdom had not fulfilled the American dream of equal opportunity and abundance...