Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprise victory over Queens, the January turning point in the Varsity's campaign, was largely due to a change in tactics, for in that encounter Hodder began the wise policy of beating out a faster team by playing a close-checking game and capitalizing on breaks for offensive sallies. But tactics alone cannot explain the Varsity's tendency to blow very hot one night and very cold the next. As Coach Hodder explains it, it is largely due to the team's inexperience...
...fifth floor of London's Park Lane Hotel was the U. S. delegation of Jews led by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, just under their deadly enemies the Arabs, just above their equally deadly enemy, Nazi Labor Front Leader Robert...
Thousands of seekers after health follow the syndicated writings of high-spirited, publicity-wise Dr. Logan Clendening (Modern Methods of Treatment, The Human Body, The Care & Feeding of Adults). Few of his readers know that Dr. Clendening lives in a residential section of Kansas City, Mo. (near Boss Tom Pendergast) and that ever since last October he has been subjected to a severe strain. Last week Dr. Clendening cracked under the strain, committed a savage infraction...
...winter last week finally settled over the "horse heaven" country of central Washington, the weather-wise Yakima Indians had already finished their first wild horse round-up of the year, thus reducing by 200 the estimated 2,500 outlaws still remaining in Oregon and Washington...
...from correspondence, newspapers, biographies, books of jokes, gossip, legend. Any Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...