Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imperative tasks of our day is to interpret the purposes, methods and results of science in such wise that this greatest adventure of the human spirit may be "understanded of the people." Science needs to be made use of, but understanding of it must precede complete utilization...
...queer characters to people a small planet. Some of these oddities are rich, most of them are eminently respectable. Last fortnight, when the British Museum bought the Ashley Library, a posthumous footnote was added to the career of one of England's rich, respected, eccentric individuals. Thomas James Wise was not only the collector and owner of the world's finest private collection of English literature. He was a literary forger...
...successful businessman, Collector Wise succumbed to the bibliophilic passion early, sometimes went without his supper to buy some treasurelet from a secondhand bookstall. As his London produce business prospered, Thomas James Wise bought more & more books, became known as Britain's foremost book collector and bibliographer. He was a friend of the late great Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad. He was frequently consulted as an authority on literary forgeries. Intimates smiled to each other about his harmless little habit of snitching lumps of sugar from cafe tables and hiding them away in a tin. At 74, dome...
...Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain Dr. Quo Taichi. Ordered to Geneva last week by Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek, their job was to raise the moral issue of the undeclared war Japan is now waging in China before the Assembly of the League and the conscience of the World. Too wise to beat their breasts or attempt either a pious or an ethical appeal, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo simply arrived in Geneva much before the Assembly was to meet and conversed intelligently with the more prominent correspondents...
Piety. The first murder in Biblical history was whitewashed in this wise by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke of the University of London: "I want to point out that Cain's slaying of Abel was not jealous murder but a ritual for increasing the fertility of the soil. Recent finds in North Syria dating from, about the second millennium B. C. show that it was a ritual to kill a shepherd at the time of the summer drouth and that Cain probably worshiped by killing Abel...