Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading your article on Byron Raymond White [April 6], I can see that President Kennedy has dismissed political temptations in order to make a wise choice...
...more experienced lawyers who should have been first considered for the high office of a Supreme Court Justice. Mr. White was an excellent student and athlete and may do well in the new job. We will just have to wait and see if Kennedy's choice was a wise...
Thomas Alva Edison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd were at various times regular customers of the book shops. Franklin Roosevelt once attributed the origin of his Hyde Park library, and his interest in collecting books and historiana, to the wise tutelage of Cornhill proprietors...
Finally, the President has announced this week that Prof. Tillich will be required to give examinations in his courses. This might have been a wise decision, had it been made early in February. But by delaying the announcement, the Administration has caused undue hardship to many students. Indeed, one student has been forced to change more than one hundred reservations on a summer trip. Surely students have a right to know the requirements in a course before they commit themselves to take the course...
...first things a student learns in English C is not to put enigmatic, infinitely wise, mysterious last lines on the ends of short stories. The attempt to give a story greater significance by attaching a pseudo-meaningful tag to it, simply doesn't work. But O'Hara can't resist this childish practice. "The High Point" ends...