Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning of wisdom about the Pope is to know that whatever else he may be doing he is always for peace. Peace rumors all over Europe last week (see p. 23) might or might not be well founded. But there was no doubt that Pius XII was busily trying to act as grand pacificator...
People who believe that Vatican politics are good morals (and these include most Catholics and a scattering of non-Catholics) defend papal diplomacy with pleas of necessity, adaptability, the ancient wisdom of the Church, and the long view, which in the case of Catholicism embraces eternity - a perspective so vast that differences between democracy and dictator ship sometimes blur to the ecclesiastical...
...Generalissimo, as for all his countrymen, it was an hour of deep sorrow. Tzu-ch'ao* was both a scholar and an artist. To his people he personified the Chinese proverb: "Great Wisdom Looks Like Stupidity." He was born in a middle-class family at Foochow in 1862. American missionaries were his first teachers. Later, at a private college, Lin Sen acquired an old-fashioned Chinese education. Later still he went to Hawaii, then to the U.S. He was living in a single barren room in San Francisco when he joined the Kuomintang, then a secret society. When...
Marriageable Molars. In Graham, N.C., Dentist Will Long peered into a young man's mouth, noted "fully developed wisdom teeth, perfect set of molars," therefore judged him over 21. The young man was therefore able to get a marriage license...
...salary of nothing a year, which is all he needs. In his new job as consultant to Czar of Czars James F. Byrnes, he still operated from his rainy-day office in a Carlton Hotel suite, from his sunny-day office on a Lafayette Park bench, prodigally dispensing his wisdom, always counseling hope, always sticking to the fundamentals, talking torrentially in a rich mixture of Broadway words and the jargon of high finance. It is this talk, almost as much as his demonstrated ability, that has created the Baruch legend. No man can hear him and go away poorer...