Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspicious of the conventional wisdom. If you feel like it needs to be challenged, put on your armor...
...phony: the energy-saving bulbs still give off that wholly-unnatural purplish light and the turnstiles--they speak for themselves. Even without those kinds of mistakes, there's no accounting for dust or all the other details that reassure a person that generations have come before. They have deposited wisdom--which can now be absorbed--and they have departed. It makes a fellow all stoic...
...phony: the energy-saving bulbs still give off that wholly-unnatural purplish light and the turnstiles--they speak for themselves. Even without those kinds of mistakes, there's no accounting for dust or all the other details that reassure a person that generations have come before. They have deposited wisdom--which can now be absorbed--and they have departed. It makes a fellow all stoic...
...Widener library, though it bares the name of the class. In his stead, the names of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, and his classmate, former Secretary of State Robert Bacon, are inscribed in the wall. President Eliot also had something to add: n the outside, "Enter to Grow in Wisdom," and on the inside, now partly obscured by Wigg, "Depart, better to serve your country and thy kind...
...Widener library, though it bares the name of the class. In his stead, the names of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, and his classmate, former Secretary of State Robert Bacon, are inscribed in the wall. President Eliot also had something to add: n the outside, "Enter to Grow in Wisdom," and on the inside, now partly obscured by Wigg, "Depart, better to serve your country and thy kind...