Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content. The inspiration necessary for the establishment of a forceful University publication Mr. De Voto has lent to the Graduates Magazine during his short term as editor. He passes on to his successor a live, interesting magazine which is fast becoming a real force. The Graduates Magazine would be wise to continue his policy; other University publications might profitably examine the causes of its success...
...Fork-Wise Prince...
...Economies and taxes alike call for sacrifices?sacrifices which are a part of the country's war on Depression. The Government no more than individual families can continue to spend more than it receives without inviting serious consequences. . . . The American people are no less courageous and no less wise than the people of other nations. . . . We can overcome this national difficulty by willingness to sacrifice and by the resolute unity of national action...
After eleven rounds of it, beetle-browed little Christopher (."Bat") Battalino, who had insisted on twelve rounds because he thought he had the edge for stamina, gathered himself for a last effort to make the kill. He sprang across the ring. But wise old Billy Petrolic, whose nickname "Fargo Express" refers to a far day when he handled freight in North Dakota, measured him as he came. Petrolle was tired. He looked discouraged, too. and his knees had sagged during several of Battalino's crazy assaults. But his straight left and lethally fast right were still accurate. He measured...
...cities grow and their suburbs thicken, city merchants find it increasingly wise to take their wares to the suburbs for sale. New York and Chicago particularly have become surrounded by rich buying areas far from Fifth Avenue and State Street. Last week Fifth Avenue lost more trade. Opened with much civic and social pomp was a large new store of Franklin Simon & Co. in Greenwich, Conn. Not the first nor the second New York store to open a branch outside the Metropolitan area (B. Altman & Co. has branches in White Plains, N. Y. and East Orange, N. J.; Best...