Word: wiseness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...need wise and sagacious counsel to see if we cannot harmonize this thing and agree on a vote by tomorrow-not tomorrow, but today. . . . So. Mr. President ... I yield the floor...
...everybody else. It is reflected in the re-turn of Billingsgate to politics. It is reflected in the general resistance to all uncomfortable truths. It is reflected in the decay of the national reason. Almost the last question you can ask about any proposal nowadays is whether it is wise, just, or reasonable. The question is how much pressure is there behind it or how strong are the vested interests against...
JOHN CAMPBELL MERRIAM: A distinguished scientist whose wise administration of the Carnegie Institution has advanced knowledge on many fronts...
...Last week wise old President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University, himself a doctor, told graduates of Cornell University Medical College not to let the medical dome constrict them. Said he: ''The medical profession (and the legal profession) have that tendency to think that whatever was is right and that change and development are wrong...
...sister of the Brothers Inman and James Richard Jr.† In 1928, while a student at Oglethorpe, drunken Richard Gray Gallogly held up an Atlanta drugstore, killed the cashier, shot out the face of an Oglethorpe campus clock. The Grays never refer to their black sheep but no wise Atlantan thought for a minute last week that they would ever trade political peace for family whitewash...