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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three Wise Men leave presents in the shoes of Spanish children, to whom stocking-stuffing Santa Claus is a stranger. This week citizens of Barcelona had barely begun to buy toys when fire totally destroyed on Christmas Day the seven buildings of El Siglo, "Spain's Largest Department Store" which was crammed with toys against the coming of the Three Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Toy Pyre | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...take good care that these dunces get through? " Look here," says the chairman, and beams through his beard, I've got the idea;" through his glasses he seared All dissenters. "Hey! Silence! Now listen, youse guys, "Pay attention a minute; don't try to be wise! "It's simple, so simple; when they make a break, "All that you do is say, 'Why, that's not a mistake!' "Let them say 'It is me' to replace 'It is I'; "At 'Who are you looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...Democratic ideas with which he disagrees that a special session next April is widely viewed as a certainty. 73rd Speakership- Such a prospect gives added importance to the present House session where already a heated Democratic campaign is in progress for the Speakership of the 73rd Congress. The wise eyes of Washington are fixed less upon the routine legislation of this session than upon the adroit pulling and hauling of candidates for Speaker. The Democrat who casts the longest shadow in the 72nd House is most likely to rule over the 73rd. Candidates- Exclusive of ambitious upstarts, three eminent Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Race to a Rostrum | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...hearkened to the grumblings of their clients, refused to surrender what their clients, after all, pay for. AP's Manager Kent Cooper was in a different position. He felt bound by a 1925 resolution of his organization which "held that in the public interest it was advisable and wise to permit the broadcast of news . . . Presidential elections specifically." In seven subsequent annual meetings that resolution had been left upon the books. Accordingly Manager Cooper supplied his reports, became target for a volley of protests from outraged AP members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ink v. Air (Cont'd) | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...several years our winning class teams have played the winning class teams at Yale. With the advent of the House it seemed wise to discontinue class athletics, and this past year the winning House teams have competed against the winning Class teams at Yale. Within the next few years Yale will abolish class athletics, after which time we hope to have our winning House teams compete against the winning College teams at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bingham Defends High Cost of Athletics in Annual Report To President Lowell--Traces Growth of Sport in Houses | 12/15/1932 | See Source »

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