Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt solemnly read a message to the nation: "God the father of all living watches over these hallowed graves and blesses the souls of those who rest here. May He keep us strong in the courage that will win the war, and may He impart to us the wisdom and the vision that we shall need for true victory in the peace which is to come. ..." He stood at silent attention before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier; a bugler sounded taps; a cold autumn wind scattered the notes down the valley that leads to the Potomac...
...Aussie's advance proved the wisdom of their caution. All along the terrible track eastward they found reminders of overzealous progress-emaciated, unwounded Jap corpses littering the jungle, dead whose stomachs contained poisonous fruits, undigested...
Light from the Past. In their different ways-the Prime Minister as though he were paying a duty to history, the President as though he were enjoying a feast of wisdom and success-Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt threw much light on the probable future of the war by explaining its immediate past. In all essentials their recitals to Parliament and to a Washington press conference tallied with each other. According to Churchill and Roosevelt...
...quiet Brother John ("Old Jack") Webb was the greatest teacher Dr. Rice ever met. Webb had a wisdom bump on his forehead the size of half a walnut, used to sit talking to himself and trimming his grey beard with pocket scissors. He taught Greek, English, history, math, everything -sitting in a split-bottom chair and gently posing riddles to his pupils. Says Dr. Rice: "More Rhodes Scholars came from Webb School than from any other in the world...
World-Deep. Professor Hocking's subject is the spiritual task of the churches in wartime. He says: "Men have labored a thousand years to make civilization stable; war shows the frailty of their wisdom. War is thus the great evil, and the great revealer of flaws; it is the great darkness when man's artificial light goes out; it is the ruthless exposer of shame. Now it is the function of religion to solve the 'problem of evil' for men none of whom escape evil. Since war is the great evil, it is the ultimate task...