Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find the facts in Japan and China's quarrel about Manchuria, to establish these facts with high authority, and to suggest an impartial solution, five wise Westerners went out to the everchanging East eight months...
Prime-movers for the committee were savings banks, insurance companies and Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Chicago universities. Their joint letter of invitation to the committee members said: "The present financial position of the railroads of the United States is a matter of grave concern. . . . Only wise and timely Federal aid has averted the financial break-down of important systems. This situation touches every citizen. . . . The relief that the present emergency has made it necessary to grant to the railroads is a drain on the Federal Treasury and any ultimate loss will constitute a burden on every taxpayer. The present deplorable...
...industrious officeholder mired in the backwaters of political money-spending sympathized with Dr. Norris' growl: "The whole thing is picayune. It is easier for the large departments to get a million dollars than it is for my small department to get $10. In pursuit of its penny-wise-&-pound-foolish policy, the city threatens to handicap seriously the work the medical examiner's office is supposed to perform...
...ruined. They stay home with him and have a lovely time. The deception works overtime and earns George Arliss another million dollars behind his back. Pressure ennobles everybody; the story shows them all good enough to be poor though in fact richer than ever. George Arliss, looking like a wise, kind turtle, is quiet and expert as the kind of millionaire everybody would like to be. Typical shot: loyal Butler Mitchell matter-of-factly giving Arliss his life savings to carry him through the crisis, making audiences sniffle...
However trivial the matter of providing convenient communication may be to the individual, in the aggregate it presents a serious need. Providing telephones is not only a matter of profit to the telephone company, or of convenience to the loquacious. It is a wise provision for emergencies which demand immediate relief...