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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual and society which is freedom and the only way to insuring democracy? It may be, if in addition to the belief in the goodness of life, natural equipment of youth, the Class of '39 can add the determination to act on the last precept of Shakespeare's wise old man: "This above all; to thine own self be true . . . ." And it must follow, as class must succeed class, that the nebulous goals of commencement speeches will become meaningful aims for each and that four years at Harvard will be understood to have made for that integration of the individual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND BEGIN THE PURSUIT . . . . | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

Surely the first requisite of wise administration in a University is the avoidance of needless frictions and serious mistakes by a regular practice of consulting, as a group, those who are best qualified to form and express an opinion. The legalistic iteration that in matters of personnel a department acts only "as an informal group to whom the administration has turned for advice" is satisfactory neither as an interpretation of the carefully defined provisions of your report nor as an assurance that its potentialities for clarity and harmony will be realized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excarpts From Open Letter to Committee of Eight | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Okay, wise guy, so I suppose you'd take a five-time spin every morning before breakfast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

Hereafter, when the Department of Justice looks prosecution-wise at any industry, its representatives can go to Washington, get the advice of such experts as Dr. Willard Long Thorp, top-flight Commerce Department economist, on the "economic aspects" of any consent decree to be proposed. The Department of Commerce explained that it wants to advise Business on steps which could not properly be discussed by the prosecuting Department of Justice. Since the right hand will know perfectly well what the left hand is doing, this will make it possible for the Government to prosecute and trade with Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Help for the Harried | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Tutoring is going to pay lower returns this year. The wise bird might well figure the return too low for an investment. he might also realize that the faculty has awakened, and that the examination system is on trial. Many will still have to tutor because they have been caught out in the rain. The others had better take their money to the races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE BOOK BLUES | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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