Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Repeal started slowly last week because the first 90 minutes that toddy shops were allowed to open conflicted with the ascendancy of the demon Rahu,*who occasionally punishes unseemly conduct by destroying a man's wisdom, money or children. Business picked up later, however, and in Madras alone 150 drunks had been arrested by nightfall. That pointed up another worry. Too much tippling could wreck the state's principal industry: movies in the Tamil dialect. Since no one else understands them. Tamil movies are shown over and over to local viewers, who are often so taken with...
...gentle jest, the Wilson Library Bulletin printed a sign that read NO SILENCE. Mrs. Jeanne Phipps, chief librarian in Ogden, Iowa (pop. 1,500), found wisdom in the wit: "For a long time I had felt that our library was too formal. The association sort of said, 'We dare you to put this sign...
Student Demonstration Time is a hard-rock parody that ponders the wisdom of violence...
...would advise a newcomer with only half a million dollars to spend to avoid the Saratoga sales and get his feet wet at cheaper auctions later in the year. And he confides: "What we're dealing in is a very elegant crap-shooting game. What passes for wisdom in it depends on what you can shoot for and still be prepared to lose...
...ization," U.S. support for Chiang Kai-shek in his resistance to Mao Tse-tung's revolution in the late 1940s. But Chou conceded that "America has its merits. It was composed of peoples of all nations and this gave it an advantage of the gradual accumulation of the wisdom of different countries...