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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lead in the polls to the fact that the Georgian "is inconsistent" and "tends to distort" the truth. Ford's suggestion that Democrats have kept unemployment low mainly by getting the U.S. into wars was the kind of statement that could persuade Carter to reassess the wisdom of traveling the high road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: AVOIDING A KNOCKOUT IN THE CLOSING ROUNDS | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Charles Bechtold, Health Education and Welfare branch office chief for financial aid, said yesterday his office this year was forced to cut back funds to schools when Congress "in its wisdom did not see fit" to reallocate last year's 38 per cent supplementary grant to the program...

Author: By Nicole Seligman, | Title: It Was a Hot Summer for Work Study | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

...cool pools of watery shadow like velvet leviathans anesthetized." But such empurplings fade as the book proceeds on its quiet but genuinely moving path. In the end, The End of the Party seems a well-tended, well-annotated photo album, an example of loving nostalgia tempered by wisdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...Gray tells us they are, why do the heroines always manage to breeze through them by the end? There must be a number of women whose lives have been poisoned by the conflicts Stephanie supposedly resolves. All Gray's protagonist has to offer in the way of hard-earned wisdom is a cutesy line about taking the bad with the good: "That's what life is all about...Garlic and sapphires in the mud. There's quite a bit of anguish hidden behind our placid, blissful exteriors...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Love's Labors Lost | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

Next weekend, the outlook is good for Harvard over Dartmouth, Yale over Columbia, and Brown over Cornell. That is, if the Conventional Wisdom can survive another Dark...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Upsets Highlight Ivy Football Weekend | 10/12/1976 | See Source »

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