Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason given is the need of many an institution to have much cash on hand. Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash, but when bond prices follow the same destructive course, there is reason for the gravest apprehension...
...owners of U. S. pictures houses) were Motion Picture News, Exhibitors Daily Review & Motion Picture News Today, and Film Daily. The new lineup of head men in the film industry (No. 1 still Adolph Zukor, No. 2 Harley L. Clarke instead of William Fox) made it seem wise and profitable for Publisher Quigley to acquire all but Film Daily and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron...
...Star" is an eleventh century German play, being one of the miracle plays from the Belsen Cycle. The main action deals with the trip of the three wise men guided by the star. In this play, unlike other miracle plays, the Virgin has no lines and appears only in tableau in the final scene...
...demonstrated the opposite. Therefore, the present word of warning must be to make the college as a whole a sound counteraction to the difference of its units. With the limited basis of experience now existent, it appears that the cry for house freedom from University guidance is not wise. The college as a whole has proved to be, in most instances, too unwieldy a body for any efficacious paternalism. With this in mind, perhaps the best thing for the houses would be a little more university paternalism to avoid the narrower house paternalism...
Judging, purely from the present situation, it would seem wise to consider the University as superior to the houses until the houses can be distinctive without being provincial. It is justifiable to utter a faint "Cave" against either the rabid pursuit of originality or the passive acceptance...