Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's letter accepting Henry Wallace's resignation warmly commended his "deliberation, true wisdom, and statesmanship," got in some good licks for the New Deal farm record. But the letter was more than a political instrument. It was Mr. Roosevelt's honest estimation of the man who more than any other was responsible for the U. S. agricultural program of the last seven years...
...suffered several frigid years. When he died, she married Businessman Jorgen Thestrup and settled down placidly to "the natural, modest contentment which a female may achieve in a marriage sensibly contracted." This arrangement brought her, with the years, seven children and such morsels of natural, modest wisdom as the following...
...Villard,* longtime (1918-33) editor & owner, since 1933 a weekly contributor, resigned. Wrote he in a valedictory article last week: ". . . America is to be safeguarded, not by guns and warships that may be rendered valueless overnight by new inventions and new tactics, but only by greater economic and industrial wisdom, by social justice, by making our democracy work." Said Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey: "It frightens me to read such articles. They represent, to my mind, a danger more present than Fascism...
...account of science's various unsolved problems is skillfully and intelligently presented; but of even greater interest are Professor Haldane's brief studies in politics, religion, Marxism and a philosophy of life. These bespeak a wisdom, sanity and deep humanitarianism form which his progressivism logically proceeds. And the latter without the former is useless...
...life of Eire's great Poet William Butler Yeats (died 1939, at 73) was a wild-goose chase after poetical wisdom-a chase that did not end before the goose was caught, cooked and eaten. How Yeats swallowed his bird-beak, bones and feathers-he has told in detail in his classic Autobiography. How the meal sat on his stomach is made plain in his motley, fearful, sometimes scabrous, more often superb Last Poems & Plays...