Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word "Gospel" (good news) as "You'd be surprised!" Dr. Bailey contends that the original "You'd be surprised!" were written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent" as "get wise to yourself," "Give us our daily bread" as "Give us good bread, fresh daily." Dr. Bailey's Gospels variously call miracles "the breaks," "doing wonders" and "indications...
...good American college has abandoned the 'take-it-or-leave-it' policy of the last century, and it believes in a wise sympathetic selection of those who will profit by its offerings," Mr. Gummere said in summarizing the attitude taken by most colleges on the admissions problem...
...rising tide of anti-Semitism in the U. S. comparable to Europe's is the contention of many U. S. observers, especially Jews. Last week the American Jewish Congress, an organization to protect Jewish civil and economic rights headed by Manhattan's patriarchal Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, published a survey specifically charting the effects of Depression and world-wide anti-Semitism on Jewish job prospects. Devoted mainly to New York City, which has a population 28% Jewish, the survey showed...
Every community has its doctor, lawyer, priest or local wise man to whom his neighbors take their troubles. But people who want their problems to go to headquarters write to the Voice of Experience. Last week the "Voice," Dr. Marion Sayle Taylor, got his six-millionth letter and began another year of broadcasting MBS stations under a renewed contract with Lydia Pinkham...
Time of Waiting. Wise men at Christmas 1938, seeking Him that was born King of the Jews, could not have found Him in the chancelleries of Europe, nor on the battlefields that scarred the map of Christendom, nor in the hearts of the masters of the world-even of those who called themselves men of good will...