Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted to wonder whether gentlemen who discourse so extravagantly and so passionately on the subject are not really laying down a barrage or smoke screen with which they hope to hide other issues?such, for example, as Prohibition?about which they may not think it politically wise to speak so boldly...
...Minister, stood up and proposed "that all nations should reach an immediate general agreement with a view to arriving at the suspension of the execution of their new armament programs," at least until the end of the approaching dis armament conference in February. German delegates applauded wildly, but other wise, like most suggestions that the League members should actually do something, the speech was greeted with shocked silence...
...sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight Soviet propaganda, explain the Nationalist Government to the Manchurian masses. In return for this the Panchen Lama receives a new title: "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture." and $480,000 ($2,160,000 Mex.) a year. $120,000 for himself and entourage, and $30,000 a month extra for "administrative expenses...
...great is the influence of the Great-Wise -Priest -Who -Guards-the-Nation-&-Spreads-Culture that the Nationalists are counting on him to bring back to China the rich province of Manchuria now split between Russian and Japanese spheres of influence...
...prize-winner (of Harper's $10.000 contest : TIME, Aug. 3 i » was Robert Raynold's lirothers in the Vest; proxinie accessit was Author Davis' The Opening oj a Door. When you have read them both you may ponder the discrimination of judges: if you are wise, you will throw no stones. The Opening of a Door is an ex-i raordinarily good first novel, but any committee might be pardoned for deciding that its subject, manner, authorship had too Julian-Greenish a tinge to make the widest appeal...