Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Economics professor, however, Seymour E. Harris, stated that although a statistics department could correlate the techniques used in the Behavioral sciences, the content of case studies would vary widely in different areas. On this account he doubted the wisdom of expanding resources for such a "service course...
...University's decision to defer any action for the present follows logically from its previously stated policy. The latest statement indicates the Corporation's continued belief in full testimony before investigation committees. But it also reveals a firm conviction that the Corporation's feelings about the wisdom of Furry's decision not to name names are beside the point, and that the decision rests with the courts alone...
...Board of Preachers yesterday in Memorial Chapel. Buttrick said that it is impossible to know life's goal while constantly hurrying, and pointed out that Christ had none of our excessive speed. "We have the appearance of people pursued," said Buttrick. "This is strange, for our human wisdom, even on the secular level, endorses God's method of slowness...
...after celebrating several past birthdays on Dec. 22, that he had occasionally been hazy about the exact hour of his birth. "I was really born on the 23rd," said he. His family then cooperated in helping him turn 92 on that day. Asked to pass on a gem of wisdom to his juniors, Mack cogitated briefly, then in his best oracular manner rumbled : "People are living too fast...
...Roosevelt as the place of origin of General Jimmy Doolittle's 1942 Tokyo raid.) Both Lost Horizon and Chips sold more than 3,000,000 copies, became movie classics. In the more than 20 novels that followed, Millionaire Novelist Hilton served up a mellow blend of worldly wisdom and well-bred British morality that delighted the book clubs, Hollywood producers and the general public, but alienated first-line critics. "The novelist who sells the reader a good time," Hilton once said, "tends to do so furtively, hoping that certain critics will not notice the offense, since they could...