Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publicized into overemphasis, U. S. college football has long been a subject of concern to wise-headed educators. Last year Columbia's President Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler urged that rich alumni endow football so that football could forget gate-receipts. Said he: "Perhaps what is needed is an academic League of Nations. . . . Until something of this sort is done Columbia must remain one of those colleges which pays the penalty." (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Few other university officials agreed with President Butler, but at the University of Pennsylvania President Thomas Sovereign Gates last autumn inaugurated a system...
...well marked division between wealthy and needy. Today every effort is bent towards placing all members of the University on as nearly equal a footing as possible, and student waiting militates against the development of a healthy social atmosphere. Extension of it, as a long-run policy, is not wise...
...courageous flight, counseled by wise Bernt Balchen, Miss Earhart became not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds...
Airplane men have their Caterpillar Club. Airship men who have dangled on ropes might call themselves Spiders. After two hours the lump at the end of the Akron's cable began to rise slowly spider-wise, toward a port in the forward part of the lifeless, floating ship. As the cable shortened Sailor Cowart's oscillations grew more violent. When he disappeared into the port, the crowd murmured with relief but no one cheered...
...despite these apparent and numerous objections, the plan for relieving unemployment by undertaking public works is at present a wise and necessary one. The chance that the money appropriated will be spent on needless projects is not large, and even if it were, the danger would be much out weighted by the pressing need to provide employment for men and to assure support to families. If money must be doled out, it is surely more desirable that it should be given in the form of wages for labor, even though done on public works not greatly needed, than that...