Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain is guilty of the gravest betrayal of a most sacred trust!" cried Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, President of the Zionist Organization of America. "We Jews found Palestine an almost abandoned waste. Under the mandate of Britain we transformed that waste into a high civilization! [The Report] attempts to set up another spurious Arab kingdom, strikes at the very heart of Jewish hopes and is an affront to the League of Nations...
Approving Nazi editors told Germans this week that the wise British had made a ''judgment of Solomon," apparently forgetting that Biblical King Solomon at the last moment did not permit the disputed babe to be partitioned...
...Wimbledon Week" is a fortnight in which five tournaments (men's and women's singles, men's, women's and mixed doubles) are played simultaneously before well-mannered, tennis-wise London crowds who stand in queues all night for tickets, drink tea and ginger beer under the old green stands between matches. Last week, 128 of the world's ablest tennists were entered in the men's singles. Record crowds watched the field narrow down to a final in which Budge and von Cramm played each other for the "world's championship" which...
...enjoyed your article concerning the book by Shark Expert Colonel Hugh D. Wise [TIME, May 24], and was interested to learn that, on the end of a line, a shark has slightly less pulling power than a man swimming...
Says Sharksman Wise in Tigers of the Sea: "Do sharks attack and kill men? . . . It is my opinion that a shark, except when surprised, attacked or greatly excited, rarely attacks a man whom he does not believe to be dead or helpless. . . . The discussion of all this with experienced fishermen in Nassau led naturally to the old question of what a man should do if he found himself in the water with sharks nearby. All of us agreed that he should kick, splash, yell, and raise all possible commotion but none of us would wish to be held responsible...