Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brightness Itself." In Nanking last week the Dictator of China, wise and watchful Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, manifestoed: "China is determined to fight to the last man! . . . The policy of our Government has been consistent from beginning to end; namely, that we cannot surrender any territory or allow our sovereignty to be encroached upon. I call upon the Nation to mobilize our total resources and struggle hand-in-hand to save China...
...were sure whether it was victory or a concession when Gillmore thereupon laid down the law that no cinemactor who was an Equity member could remain in good Equity standing unless he joined the cinema Guild." By last spring Screen Actors Guild, now 10,000 strong and thoroughly publicity-wise through the leadership of such luminaries as Robert Montgomery (Guild president) and Franchot & Joan Tone, had little need for Equity support when it wrung a 90% closed shop from Hollywood producers. President Gillmore's consolation was a sketchy group of radio performers which Equity still kept under its thumb...
There was every reason for the wise...
...upheld on appeal Judge Barnes's decision will give pause to many another U. S. banker who contemplates taking over his debtor's business. But Chicago felt last week that whatever the merits of the decision banker-wise, the judge had gone out of his way to pillory Adman Skinner...
Mice are adult at the age of twelve weeks, "old men" at two years. Six weeks after birth they are quite tame and can be taught tricks (climbing ladders, working treadmills). They are ready to mate at the age of seven weeks, but wise breeders wait until the buck has reached ten weeks, the doe twelve. Each buck has six wives at a time, but every couple of months all but one doe are taken out to give the buck a rest. A mouse is pregnant 19 to 21 days, litters are from five to ten mouselets. Bucks are never...