Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always been directed by clever, domineering women, first his brilliant physician-mother, then his wife Laura (who as an architect made more money than he and treats him now as if he were a patient), and finally his two daughters, who are bright and saucy with progressive-school wisdom...
About 3,000 years after King Solomon, in his boundless wisdom, settled the case of two mothers claiming the same child, District Judge Mehmed Zekia Bey of Nicosia, Cyprus was faced with a similar problem...
...Russia, through the years, has been a source of scientific light and not (as was generally the case) a dismal swamp of scientific darkness. From this premise it is easy to argue that the U.S.S.R. is still a source of scientific light, and thus a sort of shrine of wisdom for the world...
...having passed on this bit of wisdom, the Chief Editorial Writer went back to sleep, pausing only to wonder if the Student Council Sub-Committee on Food would get to work nice and early next term. Possibly, he thought drowsily, and if it doesn't ...well, you can't go on quoting William James forever...
...electoral college had originally been conceived as a brake on democracy: to prevent the average citizen, whose wisdom many a founding father questioned, from directly electing a President. Practice and precedent had long since deprived the electors of the actual right to name a President of their own choice; they now simply echoed the decisions of the political conventions and the people. But they echoed those decisions imperfectly-as many a voter had long been aware...