Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essential magic in its construction which preserves it inviolable against the corrosion of false doctrine or careless thinking ... It is only from the knowledge and appreciation of the deep roots of their vital heritage of political freedom that the people of a society are able to derive the wisdom needed to safeguard it for those who come after them...
...uniformly lovable natives, who first offer him gifts and finally devo tion. The funniest scenes are those between Fisby and his hidebound, befuddled blockhead of a colonel (well played by Paul Ford). The most individual scenes are those in which David Wayne, as a native interpreter full of peasant wisdom, comes engagingly before the curtain and comments on the story...
...roles, and his audience loved him in both. To the party, he was Old Tory, bucolic and patriotic, quick to boot Socialist backsides and to chuck the British voter under the chin. The other Churchill looked larger, more visionary and controversial. He was the great Britannic Moses, sharing his wisdom with the benighted, urging them to follow where...
This afternoon, Nathan Pusey will be officially installed as Harvard's twenty-fourth president. Like his predecessors, he has his own ideas about what changes the University needs, and like them, he will find that his innovations will require all of his wisdom, perseverance, and humor. We wish him success and happiness in the many years ahead of him and Harvard...
...most important-was gamma globulin, which prevents measles or softens its severity, and wards off infectious hepatitis. Most recently, gamma globulin has won fame in the fight against polio. A less exacting researcher might have been satisfied, but not Cohn. He hated the waste (and doubted the wisdom) of using whole gamma globulin as a shotgun blast against any of three diseases, and wanted to break it down into still finer fractions for pinpoint use against each disease...