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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hobson, he formulated Guild Socialism in 1912. After the WaR he campaigned, in his magazine and in the flesh, for the Social Credit system of Major C. H. Douglas. Meanwhile he was attending the lectures of Russian Philosopher Peter D. Ouspensky, who bated his breath about a Wise Man, Georges Gurdjieff, who made learned philosophers look like chicken-soup. In the midst of his activities Editor Orage dropped everything, betook himself to the Wise Man's ''Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at Fontainebleau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New English Weekly | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...chance Henry Alexander Wise Wood, builder of presses, saw a copy of Publisher McCormick's address. The words seemed to him a challenge. Years of experience, from playing with a toy case of type at 5 to constructing the New York Times's giant, silent-running, sextuple Wood press, had taught him all about pressbuilding. He went to Publisher McCormick, an old friend. "I shall give you not only the color you spoke about but also the speed necessary to mass production," said he. Specifically he agreed to produce within 18 months for the Chicago Tribune an eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daily Color | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

Henry Alexander Wise Wood, 66, white-haired, blue-eyed, resolute, has a versatility comparable to that of the famed men of the Renaissance. As an inventor he has over 450 patents to his name, is said to have done more mechanically for modern journalism than any other man. As a sportsman he yachts, flies, once made a canoe trip with his wife from New York to Nova Scotia. He also writes verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daily Color | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...sell more copies, fun-making Ballyhoo last week told newsdealers a story by and about a newsdealer. Excerpt: "... 'These imitators are LOUSY anyway and they clutter up my stand . . . and the hell with them.' ... So the WISE NEWSDEALER threw away the GOOEYS and FOOEYS and SLAPPOS and NERTSIES . . . AND BUSINESS BOOMED AGAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advt. of the Week | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...over night at the secret hermitage of Meleti, full of weird monks full of weird ideas. Hostile to Soviet innovations, they expound their general attitude at endless fantastic conversational length?"our Lord has not only chastized this earth with fools, he has afflicted it also with the wise." Wiseman Uvadiev is not to be deterred: he crosses the river, begins to oversee the stupendous work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stink or Swim | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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