Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Mills, fagged by a long campaign, insisted that there was nothing unethical in the manner of his reply, the gist of which was: "It is so easy to be wise after the event...
...hand, as he is doing so out of an experience of four years' connection with Harvard football, as a regular member of the Varsity team (three years) and as a substitute (one year)-- no intercollegiate football having been permitted in his sophomore year by reason of President Eliot's wise judgment in the face of discreditable tactics on the part of the players, the coaches, and the management of Harvard teams and their competitors,--and as a first year student in the Harvard Law School...
...answering satisfactorily the question posed above. Each educational institution must also justify itself on a broad social scale. The endowment for institutions of higher education in this country runs into billions; the institutions supported by the public drain large sums from the state treasuries. If this vast expenditure is wise--and we believe it is--the education institutions must repay society in the only way they can: by turning out educated men, capable of taking their place as leaders in the life of that society...
...hate rats," hisses James Lorenz Nicholes, with a sinister smile upon his small, ratlike features. "I would rather kill a rat than an elephant-any day." Had they been wise, 8,000,000 rats would have fled Chicago last month, for James Lorenz Nicholes was there...
...wise rat that knows its own fodder. Chicago's rats were scurrying out of their retreats by the thousands last week, slinking away to shudder and die in gutters and alleys. James Lorenz Nicholes, famed ratkiller, well knows the limitations of a rat's wisdom. A rat can distinguish between two kinds of food, may prefer one to the other or shun both. Put three kinds of victuals before a rat and it will confusedly gobble all. Applying this principle, Ratkiller Nicholes was busily ridding Chicago-temporarily, at least-of several million of its rats. Last week...