Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angoff's opinion President Lowell will be assigned a high place in future academic circles. His mistakes were many, but his contributtions to education more than offset these mistakes. Where the University was concerned President Lowell exercised a wise discretion, but he was not always careful in expressing personal feelings. President Lowell's handling of the Sacco-Vanzetti case is critized, as well as his attitude toward racial differences. Angoff gives President Lowell praise for his defense of academic freedom of thought especially in wartime, and for the incalcation of his own intellectual standards...
...meaning Pan American-shall be in the foreground of the picture, not left to fight its way against entrenched foreign competition as was the case in South America where France and Germany were flying for a full year before P. A. A. got in. Nevertheless, like a wise eagle that scouts before it screams, President Trippe makes no rash predictions. He has not even committed himself to the Greenland-Iceland route, which is only one of seven possible channels across the Atlantic. But he confidently states that "any trade route in the world can be flown with the equipment...
...courses take the final examinations and pass them than in other universities where the bursar's receipt is an admission ticket to amusement parks as well as class rooms. Relaxed standards are defects as inherent in summer schools as the high temperatures, but at least Harvard has made the wise choice of offering fewer appetizers with the substantial food rather than sating the palate...
...Fragoso Carmona for six years. The President, a rough cavalry general with an intuitive knack of nipping revolutions, calls his regime pleasantly a "Dictatorship without a Dictator." Last July the Professor, long Finance Minister, was promoted to Premier. Together he and President Carmona have issued many queer but wise decrees. In more prosperous times they clapped terrific taxes on Portuguese industry, built up a strong Treasury reserve. Recently finding that bus competition was injuring the State Railways, the President was prompted to issue a characteristic decree. Bus rates hereafter must be 15% more than the corresponding third-class railway fare...
...lose, a squabble with pontifical Eugene Meyer over a comic strip is precisely the sort of antic that delights publicity-wise "Cissy" Patterson. Her three-year career as editor, during which the Herald has gained 23,000 circulation, has been marked by many another conspicuous exploit. First thing after taking office she promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler...