Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 40,000,000 U. S. citizens this week looked forward to exercising their sovereign power over their Government. Rich & poor, black & white, male & female, busy & idle, wise & foolish, they had all been through three years of the hardest times in their country's history. At least ten million willing workers were the Idle Poor. Five thousand banks had gone under. In man's memory wheat prices had never been lower. Taxes were piled on top of the galling burden of private debt. Savings had been swept away by waves of industrial failure...
...article explains, presumably for its metropolitan readers, that "Cambridge is a quiet, peaceful little town," and contrasts the judgement of Harvard's founders with those of Yale, saying they were "wise enough to build their college in the village of Newtowne, now Cambridge, instead of in the centre of the crowded city of New Haven...
...deputy sheriff and the smalltown reporter elected to stay in the boat. With Wise carrying the submachine gun and Chesley a pistol (to signal the boat) they plunged into the willow tangles...
Back to Commerce raced the reporters with the story of the lions' release, for the early editions. Newshawk Chesley won. Then he slipped back to the island accompanied by a deputy sheriff, a Cape Girardeau reporter and a boatman named Walter Wise. They landed on the island out of sight of Wright's party. Newshawk Chesley wanted to take some more pictures of the lions before the hunt began...
...Correspondent Chesley sent the following account of his expedition: "After about 15 minutes we found their tracks. We followed them for 30 minutes or so through heavy woods and underbrush and then lost them. We looked around a while but couldn't pick up the trail. I told Wise I would go over to the shore to see if the boat was nearby. As I reached a wooded patch near the shore I suddenly found that I was between two lions. I yelled for Wise. He came and shot them. The second one was crouching . . . when Wise shot...