Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaching for teaching's sake into channels of research; and although this shift has undoubtedly tended to produce more and better scholars, it has at the same time caused a dearth of "legendary" teachers. Granted that research is the basic element in the teacher's equipment, nevertheless it is wise to have one or two men in every department who will be regarded by students as orators, as a kind of teacher who drives home his knowledge by his technique...
...character among his many neurotics points the strait way to salvation. This is Ogden Greb, a former colleague of Psychologist Jim Jones. He goes out to the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho after Jerry turns him down. There he meets an uninhibited girl with a simple heart and a wise head. After an idyllic summer and winter with her (not as convincingly described as the mountain scenery) Greb sheds his introspections...
...Aubrey Smith is fine as the understanding priest, and Thomas Mitchell as the governor's counselor is equally good. Dorothy Lamour is adequate as Mr. Hall's pretty and passionate wife. John Ford directed. "Wise Girl," with Miriam Hopkins, is as good a companion picture as can be expected under the circumstances...
Until a Master has interviewed all applicants, he cannot fairly specify who will and who will not be admitted. Yet it is essential for every Freshman wishing to become an Elephant or Funster to remember that few are accepted by mere presentation of credentials. The wise men will employ all kinds of devices and use all influences to insure acceptance. It is silly to believe that the Masters or their assistants pay no heed to tugs and pokes from behind friendly curtains. Those who get in will be the ones who write letters, pull many strings, and prove the most...
...past three weeks, political wise-acres have been saying that in asking for $800,000,000 for Navy construction in addition to the regular $500,000,000 appropriation, Franklin Roosevelt was trying to get out of Congress an approval of his foreign policy in the misleading shape of a Navy Bill. Last week it seemed that something quite different had happened. It seemed that powerful isolationists were using the Navy Bill as a means of smoking out, and then perhaps modifying, the President's foreign policy...