Word: wiseness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This will give you an idea as to how "Uncle Shylock" gives the Dole. There are thousands who, in addition to the above, get compensation and pensions-by malingering. Thousands like me, young, healthy, have run on to this simple solution of living without working. Of course, being a wise old Uncle, he gives the dole to his fighting men. Perhaps we are a part of his standing army. When I think of the Deficit and Mr. Hoover's problems and the thoughtless waste of money on the undeserving, and the waste that goes on of materials in government...
...wise citizen who knows the Father of His Country in all the new Washington Bicentennials. The Post Office Department has gone to some pains to obtain obscure likenesses. Of the issue, which ranges from 2¢ to 10¢, there are four Charles Wilson Peales, two John Trumbulls, a reproduction of the Houdon bust, the famed Gilbert Stuart ($1 bill) Athenaeum portrait, the New York Historical Society's anonymous portrait, a crayon drawing made from life by Charles B. F. Saint-Memin, a portrait by William Williams...
...present time, however, it has been realized that the contemplated step of two decades ago was a wise one and that the provisions of the will are now outworn. A complete reorganization of the Engineering School is now desirable and it seems possible that one can be effected which will not disregard the McKay bequest altogether. That something along this line is imminent can be gathered from President Lowell's report in which he points to the growing number of graduate students, tells of the inadequacy of the present system of combined undergraduate and graduate teaching, and speaks of forthcoming...
...other growing portions of the University, the School of Business Administration has reached a point where it is obliged to limit its numbers. In fact the students now exceed the one thousand which Mr. Baker's buildings were designed to hold. Nor, if possible, would it be wise to increase the size of the classes. The instruction as given here is new, without previous experience as a guide, and time enough has not yet passed to guage the methods employed by the work of the graduates more than a few years after leaving the School. The Faculty is, therefore, constantly...
...Wise was Oglethorpe when he chose Georgia. Wise were the early settlers who journeyed from the "North to this rich land. General Motors salutes you, Georgia. Faithfully have you kept lighted the torch of the pioneer...