Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington to the State Department. I been to Bob Marshall.* I been to the Alaska Congressman.† I got a lawyer. We telephone Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He cost me $34. We sending telegrams four times. I go to Seattle, get affidavits from seven wholesale houses which sell to me in Wise man how much I buy. I come back to Washington again. I spent already extra thousand dollars. Such a damn fool law. Who the hell he pay make all those proofs when I can't support...
...completely witnessed aerial disaster in history, the subsequent Department of Commerce inquiry at Lakehurst droned along inconclusively for two weeks until uprose a man who had been in Austria when the great dirigible burned. Although he had not seen the tragedy which cost 36 lives and $3,000,000,* wise old Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's No. 1 lighter-than-air authority, had spent a week looking at the wreckage, examining meteorological records, still and motion picture films, listening to the testimony of survivors and ground crew. When he took the witness chair, Dr. Eckener felt prepared to give...
Between seasons Colonel Wise once tested, and later compared with a shark's, the pull that a man can exert swimming against rod & reel. His figures for a 6 ft. 3 in. Princeton water poloist harnessed, and for young male Sand sharks of the same weight (200 lb.) hooked in the mouth...
...TIGERS OF THE SEA-Colonel Hugh D. Wise -Derrydale Press...
...expeditions to Andros Island by Colonel Wise, whose literary style is as unpretentious as his experting, were made perfect by E. M. Schuetz, resident manager in Nassau for National Fisheries Corp., a commercial sharking company, to whom prospective sharkers might well apply. Gleeful was his reply to an angler returning home on the S. S. Munargo with boasts about the big barracuda he had caught. Colonel Wise could truthfully say: "We used them for bait." His biggest catch at Andros was a Great Blue shark that measured 11 ft. 7 in., weighed 954 lb. But far bigger ones, of course...