Word: wiseness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cheer up the public. For several years doctors have tried to scare everyone with a new, unaccountable lump on his body into running for medical examination. That was all very well, until psychiatrists began to complain that they were being overworked and underpaid by daffy cancer-phobes. It seemed wise to right-face concerning cancer, sound an encouraging clarion...
Authoress Lehmann, wise economist of effects, never gives you too much of anything, of some of her characters lets you have tantalizing glimpses that are not half enough. What she lets you see of young brother James, a glowering but attractive rebel, would make any reader call for more. In the silence of his crib James was given to versifying his wrongs. One scorcher...
...disciples, I will reveal to you the scores of this afternoon's most important games. But first let me refer you back to the uncanny precision of my prophecies of last week. True it is that I forecast Harvard 26, Dartmouth 13, but my most understanding followers were wise enough to subtract the magic numbers of 16 and 6 respectively in order to get the correct score. (However, today I will prognosticate so that the simpler ones among you may know the outcomes before the games are played...
Your recent editorial on the drinker Respirator suit failed to make wholly clear the principal point oat issue. The question is whether universities shall allow their professors to use for private gain scientific and medical discoveries made under the university auspices, on tax-free premises. The problem is of wise importance, for it confronts not Harvard alone, but all the great universities and research foundations of the country...
...Wolfson '12, Nathan Littauer, Professor of Jewish Literature and Philosophy; Dr. Arnold Margolin, former justice of the Supreme Court of the Ukraine; Hyman Morrison '05, professor in the Tufts Medical School; Lewis Goldberg '11, justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court; Kirsopp Lake, professor of Church History; Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi of the New York Free Synagogue; Eustace Hayden, professor at the University of Chicago; and Lion Feuchtwanger, famous German novelist...