Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago when such wise collectors as the sponsors of last week's memorial show were boosting the market price of Pascin's delicate and decadent women, a French firm placed him under a very liberal contract which gave him an income and a percentage of commissions that seemed to guarantee financial independence. Pascin realized that he would never live to enjoy it : he was dying of cirrhosis of the liver...
Onetime British Soldier Aldington disagrees with the late great French Soldier Foch. Foch was usually wise enough to stick to his horizon-blue muttons, but once hazarded the opinion that the heroic soldier's reward was glory. In these 13 stories Aldington gives various examples of the soldier's reward. In the light of the title, all are bitterly satirical. Some of them...
...following is the complete revised mid-year examination schedule. The Crimson assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the schedule, which is posted in University Hall. All examinations begin at 9.15 o'clock unless other-wise specified. THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 (XIV) Anthropology 2 Emerson J Classical Philology 34a Sever 30 Comp. Literature S Emerson J Comp. Literature 11 Memorial Hall Economies B Harvard 5,6 Economies 16 Sever 5 Economies 23 Harvard 5 English 35a New Lect. Hall Fine Arts 5n Eogg Large Rm. French 10 Sever 30 Government 17a Sever 5 Government 18a Geol. Lect. Rm. History of Religions...
...majority of the Freshmen will doubtlessly stay where they belong,--in the classroom, in the small conference groups, and in the lecture halls. They will do the outside work assigned to them, but little more. In most cases it will be wise to assign but little outside work. The men of greater ability and avidity however, will be less likely to loaf, for there will be something more to do after the easy B's and easier C's are collected...
...Anna's native wit was not much help. Thea kept things on a spiritual plane, which baffled Anna considerably. Then Karl Arthur heard a call to resign his ministry and go to preach in the byways. Thea left her husband and went with him. Years later it was wise Charlotte Löwensköld who rescued Karl Arthur from the woman who was dragging him down, persuaded him to go to Africa as a missionary, eventually got Anna to join him there. Like most human arrangements the upshot of these lives was a patched-up compromise; but thanks...