Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the bold Irish mug of the Ambassador to Great Britain appears again on TIME'S cover [Sept. 18] or before he runs for President, I hope Kathleen or her handsome mother can do something about those hornrimmed glasses he affects. Some Kennedys think themselves wise as owls. Joe must want to look like...
Sharply in the minds of political wiseacres was this thesis: if either combatant should win that battle clearly and conclusively, he would be a No. 1 figure in U. S. politics next year. And the Washington wise men added: besides Vandenberg and Roosevelt, no other man in either party stands to gain so much by winning the Neutrality debate...
...Thus the wise men came back to the possibility that this fight may make either Arthur Vandenberg or Franklin Roosevelt the Mr. Big of 1940. All the soothsayers realized that the vast unpredictability of World War II might make fine hash of their predictions at any minute. But in shooting guesses from the hip, they aimed at the biggest possibilities as last week's shifting targets slid...
...many months. For adequate production and storage of vitamin A, a diet should be abundant in "thin green leaves," bright yellow fruits, vegetables such as carrots, corn, sweet potatoes. Vitamin A prevents night blindness, a failing as common in the U. S. today as in ancient Egypt, where diet-wise physicians cured thousands of cases with liver. Few persons realize that vitamin A is the most important of all vitamins for proper tooth formation in growing children, and for resistance to infection. It is also vital for healthy tissue development of sex organs...
Grizzly Dr. Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, publicity-wise president of the University of Maryland, failed to welcome students to the Maryland-Virginia Traffic Policemen's Accident Prevention School. Reason: his carwas disabled in an accident...