Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manuel once expressed his own Nationalist philosophy (1921) as follows: "We [Filipinos] are like, let us say, a young married couple starting out in life. A mother-in-law is helping run their establishment. She may be a perfectly admirable woman, kind, generous, affectionate, wise and the best cook on earth, but the young household does not want her. . . . A block down the street, or across the river, the household thinks of her with profound affection and regard . . . but it does not want her forever stirring the pot and dominating the bill of fare...
...surgeons' convention also provided plenty of good, sound, workaday surgery. For weeks California surgeons had been saving up their extraordinary cases to demonstrate their virtuosity to their visiting fellows. Sightseers repaid the local surgeons by giving them many a wise bit of counsel, among which were the following...
...Story which Professor Lake will interpret this morning at 12 in the Fogg Large Room has to do with Solomon, the wise king of Israel, and his clever alliances with Hiram, king of Tyre, one "filled with wisdom and understanding and cunning to work...in brass...
...wisdom and proverbs are the result of dear experience. His business experiences taught him the power of gold and clever dealings. Seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines gave him ample opportunity to speak authoritatively on that subject. His reorganization of the internal administration of his kingdom; his wise utilization of the control of the caravan routes that led from Egypt and Arabia to Phoenicia and Syria; his great commercial undertakings as middleman and carrier; his zeal for monoplies; and all in all with his faith in the Lord laid the foundations of his vast national wealth and showed...
...sometimes shady deals and in spite of the fact that his harem did finally bring his ruin. Solomon lives in the literature of the Bible as one of the most human, the wisest, and a God-fearing man. This son of David, son of Bath-sheba, even as his wise words, has become "a proverb and a byword among the people...