Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little or no opportunity to know what the Houses are like or what purposes they serve. When in the spring they are requested to indicate a preference concerning the House in which they would like to live, they have no knowledge upon which they can make an intelligent or wise decision. Since it is impossible to change from one unit to another it is imperative for a student to select a House that is compatible to his interests, both social and intellectual...
...Europe today, the. comer upon whom all wise eyes were cocked last week, is Pierre Etienne Flandin, big bald Premier of France and the youngest man in his own Cabinet...
...dismiss a number of officers as demanded by War Minister General Zlateff, presumably at the suggestion of the Veltcheff-Gueorguieff dictatorship. General Zlateff did a little scouting on his own, then with a shrill whistle of surprise swung to his sovereign's side. It was a wise move. Last week Little Tsar Boris was strong enough to dismiss the entire dictatorship and make repentant Zlateff Premier of a Cabinet that has for its sole platform loyalty to the Tsar...
...University of the South at Sewanee. A onetime vice president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, he has quietly refrained from splashing the front pages of newspapers with his social and economic views. But last week this venerable churchman broke his silence and boldly plumped for "wise interference of Government in control of private business." Said...
...Hogarth "was a propagandist for morals, and the propagandists never even wants to discover the truth; he is in too great a hurry to makes his case against the fools and the wicked, having, as a rule, no idea how like the fools and the wicked are to the wise and good." As for Sir Joshua Reynolds, who "hoped that British Art would take its place in the European tradition and achieve what he called the grand style," "one is tempted to take his mastery for granted," forgetting that "he learned to imitate the final results of mastery without going...