Word: wisely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among other committee members: William H. Allen, Jane Addams, Senator William E. Borah, Bruce Barton, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Senator Carter Glass, William G. McAdoo, Rabbi Stephen S, Wise...
...marriage have made newspaper copy from time to time, since the publication in 1913 of his book, Marriage and Divorce. Marriage, he contended, must be regarded as a human institution, a social form to be used so long as it is useful, and to be abolished when abolition is wise. Essentially marriage is a sex matter, but the test of a true marriage is "spiritualization of the physical instinct of sex attraction." He approved of divorce whenever affection has dwindled...
...Chevrolet, Chrysler and Hudson-Essex, which have led the market in 1928 sales (Ford does not exhibit) and who therefore had first, second and third choice, respectively, to space at the Show, surrendered their prerogatives to a wise allotment of exhibition room. On the main floor they displayed jointly with...
...well as this: "Almost all the plays in this book are religious, but religious in that dilute fashion that is a believer's concession to a contemporary standard of good manners. . . . Our Lord asked us in His work to be not only as gentle as doves, but as wise as serpents...
...Duke Nicholas. The glory of his early victories, and of his masterly retreat from Warsaw, is not dimmed by the fact that Nicholas II finally withdrew command of the Western Front from the Grand Duke. Stories are still told of the iron discipline which he kept, and of the wise and genuine humanity with which he tempered it. Like Napoleon he was loved because he inspired his men to march and fight to their uttermost, exultant limit, while always feeding and bedding them as well as could 'by any possibility be done. That he defied the Tsar, the politicians...