Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state representatives doubted the wisdom of the bill, they were evidently reassured by Dr. W. J. Terry, the state superintendent of education and the chief sponsor of the bill...
...deadline approached, considerable controversy developed throughout the state as to the wisdom of the trustees' decision...
Triple Threat. In St. Louis, in three robbery attempts in one month, John Wisdom Wallace 1) tried to hold up a grill with a toy pistol, fled empty-handed when a waitress threw a glass of water at him; 2) tried to rob a confectionery, fled empty-handed when the proprietor shot at him; 3) tried to hold up another confectionery, was tackled by 74-year-old Owner Arnold Barnes, who sat on Wallace until the police arrived...
...citizens were already looking over a site for the state university. "On that day," reported one of them later, "we met out-of-doors in a clearing in the hazel brush . . . Before the meeting, we got down on our knees in a circle, and we asked God for the wisdom to build a university that would turn out the kind of men this Common wealth will need." The group's prayers were apparently answered, for when the university finally opened its doors in 1855, it began a career that even its founders could never have suspected...
...says President Hancher, the State University of Iowa has more than lived up to the hopes of its founders who knelt that day in 1847 to pray for wisdom. It has turned out governors (Archie Alexander of the Virgin Islands), senators (Bourke Hickenlooper), scholars (Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam), explorers (Vilhjalmur Stefansson), editors (Bruce and Beatrice Gould), and columnists (Marquis Childs); 34 of its alumni and former professors have become heads of other colleges and universities (e.g., George Stoddard, former president of the University of Illinois; H. K. Newburn. former president of the University of Oregon; T. R. McConnell, former...