Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, if you are wise, and if you like books for themselves or for what is in them, proceed directly to this noble bone-yard, and--if you are not already too late...
...Senate is an assortment of 96 statesmen and timeservers, wise men and fools, honest men and hypocrites, hardy-hearts and lily-livers, but the collective assortment has one distinguishing characteristic: it goes its own way and makes public life hard for every President. For the greater part of the past two years the Senate has not been true to character. Last week, however, the Senate was again the Senate...
...infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their herds they buy champion bulls which have convinced judges on some 25 show-ring points. The result is that unbiased experts no longer claim that cows registered, in herd books produce more milk than unregistered animals, that wise breeders sometimes pay more for unregistered cows than for their elite sisters. A survey in South Africa showed that when a dozen champion bulls were used for sires, they had daughters whose milk capacity averaged 1,000 lb. lower than the dams. Thus Mr. Prentice brings his argument down...
...whichever parent is higher. The dam's inheritance was obvious from her output. The problem remained how to evaluate the bull's transmitting capacity. The Prentice group chose the method of systematically comparing the yield of bulls' daughters with the yield of their dams. In such wise Mr. Prentice's geneticist-in-chief arrived at Mount Hope's crowning achievement-the Mount Hope Bull Index...
LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPRESSES- Jacques de Serviez-Wm. H. Wise & Co. ($2.90). Reprint of an 18th Century translation, introduction by Robert Graves...