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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fulfill the final mystery and meaning of his historical pilgrimage, is not to rob life of meaning or responsibility. The love toward God and the neighbor, which is the final virtue of the Christian life, is rooted in an humble recognition of the fragmentary character of our own wisdom, virtue and power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Niebuhr on History | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...people round about did marvel at my great works for my treasure did grow and magnify by sixty nine dollars and fifty cents; and my wisdom was very great...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...Aldriches are typical products, is less a cure for modern immaturity than a cause of it. This, he asserts, is not the age of the Common Man, but "the Century of the uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess of servile pottage." Merely to offer more & more of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Case of Henry Aldrich | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Time Is Now. The hour is not only Britain's finest, but Churchill's, calling upon him to exert to the full every talent and scrap of wisdom of his 65 knowledgeable years. Out from under their old wraps he brings a host of favorite, once-rejected projects (such as the portable concrete harbors and LCT's which he had first blueprinted in World War I) and a mass of experience concerning everything from seas and men to small arms and bomb fuzes. Above all, he sets out to turn the menaced island nation into "a spider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web & the Weaver | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...beta, and kappa are the initials of a three world Grecian motto that means, "Love of wisdom the Holmsman of Life." On the reverse side of the key the name and college of the member is engraved above the letters SP which stand for Societies Philosophiae...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: PBK, College Honor Society, Was Social Club | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

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