Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past service,"When I was in Washington. . . ."He called the Republican party "the most efficient instrument for sound popular government ever entrusted with the guidance of a great nation." He deprecated the idea of Change for Change's sake. He referred to Democrat Grover Cleveland as "a wise statesman." Excerpts...
...What the world needs is ... more light to illuminate what is obscure, more light to enable us to reorganize our intellectual and social and political lives. No one is wise enough to tell the source from which illumination will come. . . Thus spoke Dr. Abraham Flexner last week, making formal announcement that Dr. Albert Einstein had accepted appointment with the (Bamberger-Fuld) Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Sept. 5). Dr. Flexner is the Institute's director, is seeking with his $5,000,000 endowment to make it a post-postgraduate school where Ph.D.'s will be understudies...
...before the one intercollegiate contest. To keep the game from degenerating into a farce, makeshift teams should not meet Yale. Either ineligible men should be allowed in this game or should not play at all. Their right to competitive exercise is undeniable, and the Harvard Athletic Association would be wise to modify the rule to fit those circumstances...
...prevent his own bias influencing the treatment, he has quoted "directly wherever possible." The book, is, in fact, largely a culling of brief quotations from numerous modern elergymen and other writers, such as Fosdick, A. E. Taylor, Rabbi Wise, Dean Inge, etc., with no thorough examination of the cosmologies underlying any of the opinions. The chapter on "Various Kinds of Bodies," a series of such quotations, reminds one of the descriptions of the "momeraths." The effect is that of having heard the last five minutes of a hundred sermons. There is a rather extensive bibliography, but no index...
...sense, the real actors. They are cast in productions not for what they are, but for what they can do. They are capable of playing a variety of roles, brusquely substituting one set of mannerisms for another. Miss Cowl attempts full membership in neither class, in our opinion, a wise move, as neither her personality nor her acting ability alone has sufficient distinctiveness to entitle her to a pre-eminent position...