Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Grand United Order of Wise Men & Women of the World...
...went up to Wise that night along with my cousin and not meaning no harm. Along in the evening Raymond Meade came along and said he would give me a lift back to my house in the Pound. There was some more people in the car with him but we let them out down the road a piece and Raymond Meade says to me: 'Let's go to the Little Ritz and get something...
...Purposes Wise...
...specific purposes for which Harvard University seeks to increase its resources are, in my judgment, wise. Princeton shares President Conant's views regarding the necessity at this time of emphasizing the unity as well as the specialization of knowledge. The course of scholarship has proceeded along lines of greater and greater subdivision of subject matter. This was necessary and is bound to continue, but in our enthusiasm for more information we have neglected the need for integration and synthesis. Great minds are required for the task. Small minds may unearth new details but only great minds can weave new patterns...
...biography of a man of letters, the career of Henry van Dyke (The Story of the Other Wise Man) is one of the most ironic in the history of U. S. culture. Sophisticated readers may ignore his achievements, may feel considerable discomfort that such a writer could be widely hailed and honored as a U. S. spokesman at a time when stronger talents were condemned to frustration and neglect. Nor are such readers likely to derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke...