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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-four years ago powder-wise Mr. Olin founded Western Cartridge Co. in East Alton, 111. Soon the company was well entrenched in the munitions field and from time to time since the War it has set the pace for the industry, continually improving its products. Its most notable recent accomplishment was Super X shells, with a slow-burning powder to give shotguns a more even explosion, a shorter shot-string. Super X was developed in the company's laboratories by President Olin's son John, a vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Winchester & Western | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...promote interracial harmony and provide a forum on Jewish questions will appear next month Opinion-A Journal of Jewish Life & Letters, edited by James Waterman Wise, 29, magazine and newspaper writer. Included in the editorial board are Ludwig Lewisohn, Dr. John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, father of the editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For & About Jews | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...with a good wife, two sons and a daughter. Everything went as well as could be expected for Mendel until his last child, Menuchim, was born?a cripple, practically an idiot. When his mother carried the child to the wonder-working Rabbi he said: "Pain will make him wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong!" But Menuchim went on being a cripple, practically an idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Red | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...Yale Daily News seems to thoroughly share in this sentiment, as they are credited with this bold-hearted assertion, in reference to the unemployment collection slated for the epic Harvard-Yale clash: "The spectators will give freely only if their favorite team is winning, so if the managers are wise the Crimson side of the Stadium will be canvassed first before it gets too discouraged." --BY TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

...course the CRIMSON was tactless; it took a snarling tone as does any often-threatened dog; it impressed into service arguments which are, to say the lest, doubtful. Nevertheless, it was politically wise for the CRIMSON to speak in the year Harvard won just as loudly as it has spoken in years when the Army has colored the Stadium with a pale pink. It would have been hypocritical to do otherwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

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