Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their own defense that they only wish to do in Manchuria the civilizing work which Britain accomplished in Egypt. Historically they claim they also are following the examples in other parts of the world, of the United States, France, and other powers. . . . Public opinion in this country will be wise to suspend judgment. The same rules cannot always be applied to every case...
...feat mentioned in many a text book. Studebaker engineers point with pride to the adoption of free-wheeling in 1930, the first convertible top (1924), full power mufflers (which increase horse-power), 90% elimination of motor roar by a carburetor silencer, ball-bearing spring shackles, hydrostatic gas gauges. Figure-wise Mr. Erskine last spring saw that the plants were overvalued, ordered a $16,000,000 writedown (TIME, April 4). Like many another western executive Russel Erskine is at his office before 8 a.m. But he often interrupts the day to play 18 holes of golf after lunch, returning then...
...elements of the case easily lent themselves to burlesque. Mrs. Pollak, who wore her long bobbed hair curled at the ends Garbo-wise, had been married three years to Joseph Pollak, back-of-the-stockyards bootlegger and money lender. She suspected him of philandering with a Mrs. Julia Cebulski. One afternoon last July Mrs. Pollak was unable to locate either her husband or Mrs. Cebulski. When her husband returned to the flat that evening she shot him. Said she afterward: "That was a dirty trick I did to poor...
...Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's Nobel Laureate, speeding into the far north after a summer of climbing mountains ibex-wise, reached a point on Hudson Bay only 350 mi. from the North Magnetic Pole in time to take cosmic ray readings during the solar eclipse. His mountain-top observations in many latitudes had led him to suspect that cosmic rays are not pulsations from outer space, as Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks, but streams of electrons probably originating in Earth's atmosphere. The nearer the Equator, he observed, the less was the rays' intensity...
...friendly rival's telegram. From Winnipeg, where he may encounter Dr. Compton, he will fly with an electroscope to as close to the North Magnetic Pole as Royal Canadian Air Corps planes can carry him. There he will make his own cosmic ray readings, then soar eagle-wise southwards to Texas, getting U. S. Army planes after he crosses the border, making electroscopic observations all along...