Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today the majority of students in the Ivy League colleges do not see the issues of our nation in terms of absolute right and wrong. Furthermore, they doubt the wisdom of their elders who attempt to make judgments in those terms. Every thinking student has his own set of premises, draws his own conclusions from those premises. Rarely do either the premises or the conclusions agree perfectly with those of any other student. In this era of shifting assumptions mass thinking in our colleges cannot exist...
...mouthed wife. Pilar is a gypsy: she reads doom in Jordan's palm. She smelt death-to-come on the last dynamiter who went through, and he was killed. In one of the book's terrible, eloquent passages ("All right, Ingles. Learn. . . .") the woman with her ancient wisdom actually conveys in words what the smell of death-to-come is like...
Within the twinkling of an eye, the Cambridge police appeared on the scene armed with nightsticks, machetes, battle-axes, and a couple of French seventy-fives. With their customary fortitude and wisdom, they managed to quell the "disturbance" with only a few casualties. But since then, the U. T. has held no more "stagsmoker with eight (8) acts of vaudeville...
...also the name of the Guatemalan money unit, and the bird's graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...
...vast Gallic shrugs, 'Undoubtedly because he knows he's doomed anyway.' So, the stalemate on the western front was widely explained as 'Hitler's realization of the economic impasse he's got himself into.' " Said the Paris-soir with an air of wisdom: "If Hitler attacks this spring, it will be a sign of either great German strength or great weakness." There was much talk about Hitler's secret weapon. But scoffers asked: "What secret weapon could he have-besides those dive bombers and tanks he used in Poland, which...