Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth is good; they must be good. In light of which, humorous is the attempt of the Dartmouth Athletic News Weekly to build its team up as an underdog. Making the opponent over confident is wise policy, but Santa Claus didn't have a beard when this last workout (we quote...
Whether Harvard is due to win a number of major football victories this year or not, and the wise money is concentrating in the gambling circles to the effect that Harvard can't help winning a few, it is certain that long-range prospects aren't so good judging from the most recent edition of the Freshman teams...
When the Workers of Capitalistic Democratic countries get wise to the Capitalists and the Capitalists can not live no more by their wits, then these Capitalistic scum of humanity ally themselves with the racketeers and thugs to force on the workers Facism. The degenerate Capitalists and their kind might as well be pounding their dumb heads against a stone wall as to try to beat evolutionary changes...
...policy (TIME, Aug. 30), and Leftist Laborites, Mexican observers last week interpreted as the opening volley of a Mexican Right v. Left struggle. Unorganized, Mexican Rightists have been unable to present any formidable opposition to the 42-year-old "social revolution" of President Lazaro Cardenas. But last week, news-wise correspondents saw the Rightists rallying around swarthy-skinned General Cedillo, predicted that Mexico contained the makings of a little Spanish civil...
...Henry Wise Hobson, 46, tall, affable Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, bustled about Nippert Stadium of the University of Cincinnati one day last week, greeted 140 fellow-bishops, as they arrived by the dozen, with "You're on the home team, Bishop." and "You're on the visiting team today." For the procession of 1,000 bishops, clergy and laymen which was to open the 52nd triennial General Convention of the Church, bishops were to robe themselves in home and visiting team dressing rooms according to whether they had held office for ten years, or longer...