Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Sea flowed around Kublai's Green Mount (also called the Hill of Ten Thousand Years), converted it into an island serenely adorned by the White Pagoda, the Pavilion of Perpetual Southern Melodies, the Tower of Felicitous Skies, Wisdom's Fragrant Terrace...
...Jews not to take part in secular elections, was offering $15 worth of scrip, good for luxury foodstuffs, if they would stay away from the polls. But in Jerusalem's Orthodox quarter of Mea Shearim, bearded and ringleted men with memories of East European ghettos were praying for wisdom before making their choice...
...suggestion that he draw a dung-and-oakum-smeared sail under the ship and over a shattered spot in the bottom. Pressure clotted the sail to the hole, and the Endeavour and her men were saved. Though the East Australia coast was only 25 miles away, Cook's wisdom, the midshipman's wit, and even the crew's will were undoubtedly sharpened by the knowledge that another ship was not likely to be coming their way for the rest of the century...
With somewhat more wisdom than he showed in "approving the project," Secretary Talbott last week said that he did not want to go into many details of Moral Re-Armament's half-price-loading, because "some other institution might want to take advantage . . . Once we start this sort of thing, everybody will be after...
Such weather wisdom warns of tornado conditions only an hour ahead at best; usually much less. This is not time enough to broadcast an alarm to people who spend little time in the open and so cannot watch the sky. For such potential victims, the U.S. Weather Bureau, with a big assist from the Air Force, has developed a system that warns of tornadoes two to four hours ahead...