Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because old places are living things in time-soaked Charleston, it was not in human for the city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed...
...women against the world." Graduated from the same orphanage but into very different walks of life, the three are thrown together and their reactions to a common interest are well conceived and excellently portrayed. Star of the picture, however, is six-year-old Janet Chapman, who lacks the publicity-wise sophistication of Hollywood citizens twice...
CHICAGO--The vaunted New York Yankees hailed by many wise men as the greatest team ever gathered together, tomorrow will begin the drive for a third successive world's championship and a world's record against the amazing Chicago Cubs, National League champions who came from nowhere to capture the pennant in a blazing September finish...
...Consider: temperature 98°, humidity 34%, gives humiture 66. Now assume temperature 34°, humidity 98%, gives humiture 66. I hasten to assure you that "the man on the street" will in no wise feel the same. My best observations so far are: multiply the temperature by 5, add the humidity and divide the sum by 6 to obtain the tempidity...
...settling down to four years at Harvard it would be wise if the Freshman included in his academic schedule a certain number of hours which he will waste each day. He may study in those hours, but will learn things he will never use and promptly forget. But this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part...