Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, June 5), is still talk-of-the-town. The big, bad wolf came, a frightful shaggy fellow with dripping chops and a chest as big as a barrel. He huffed & he puffed & he blew down the houses of sticks and straws, sent the foolish piglets scuttling to the wise piglet's house where they hid under a bed, yet like professional pluggers kept repeating their song until audiences knew it by heart...
...Even a fool," we seem to recall, "when he hoideth his peace, is counted wise...
...stock to the R. F. C.: "A man with plenty of chips can play a better game of poker than one who is playing 'scared' or 'short' money. ... Let us assume that you do not need any new capital in your banks, is it not wise, as well as patriotic, to go along in the preferred stock program? ... Be smart for once. Take the Government in partnership with you, and then go partners with the President in the recovery program...
Postal workers view TIME'S try at painting the Roper lily (Letters, Aug. 28) as scarcely TiME-worthy. In no wise existing on "public money on which the taxpayer gets no tangible returns," the postal service renders as tangible and indispensable a service as that given by the telephone, telegraph, railway and express companies. And ''public money" is public money whether paid indirectly through the Postoffice Department or directly to a utility...
...might be wise to suggest that before attempting the more arduous activities such as sport managerships or the periodicals, the student should make certain that his scholastic standing is secure. Otherwise a few misguided efforts on an examination may cause the whole castle to tumble...