Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standard of amateur boxing as well. By dividing all the fighters who had the desire and the necessary 25? to become amateur boxers into two classes (sub-novice and open), the Daily News Athletic Association did away with the common practice of matching tough but inexperienced youngsters with ring-wise opponents according to the luck of the draw. Today, almost every city in the U. S. has its Golden Gloves tournament, which stretches over a six-week period from the first neighborhood preliminaries to the city finals...
Both Ersing and Timoteo claimed to be the twins' father; both wanted possession of them; both wanted to marry the widow; neither could legally do so, because both had wives, although neither knew where his wife was. At this stage of these unusual proceedings, the publicity-wise president of Chicago's board of health, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, father of six, came forward. He had samples of blood drawn from the men, mother and infants to make tests for paternity. A child inherits the characteristics of his parents' bloods in much the same manner as he inherits...
...Wise undergraduates, remembering May 11, rushed up the steps for shelter, while the general public remained star-scattered on the grass. Irving G. Fine 1G, conductor, saved the day for Harvard by hurriedly cancelling the last three numbers and inviting all members of the university onto the steps to join in the college songs. Mindful of the downpour which waterlogged the ivories two weeks ago, Glee Club members carried the piano to safety...
...Many a wise Washington eyebrow went up last weekend as the Presidential yacht Potomac chuffed out into Chesapeake Bay carrying Franklin Roosevelt and two highly interesting cruise guests, Senator and Mrs. Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin. Five days previously Young Bob, over a nationwide radio network, had signed on with his brother Phil's new political party. If Senator Bob was kinder to the President ("one of the great liberal leaders of modern times") in his speech than Governor Phil had been in Madison last month, he was equally firm in his conviction that the Roosevelt Administration...
...orthodox Confucians Author Crow's Confucius may sometimes seem confusing. But they will have to admit that he succeeds in peeling off a lot of the 24-century coating of official lacquer. In fact, as Author Crow portrays him, the huge, ugly wise man emerges with a look as human as Benjamin Franklin...