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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always with pleasure and profound esteem that the Vagabond slowly turns the leaves of the world's most wonderful book and--even as sipping old wine--drinks and muses of the wisdom of years long ago. Especially is this true when the narrative is woven with colorful parables and wise sayings--and especially when the story is told by the inimitable Professor Lake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/5/1935 | See Source »

...TIME must be nautical-term-wise in reporting the vantage point from which "The Commander-in-Chief" views Navy sham action, why pick on "No. 2 barbette?" Why not have the President suspended from port-aft-quarter-boom-kingpost in a boatswain's-chair or some other unlikely position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...term is up. Mr. Baldwin wished to quote the late great Lord Macaulay as as approving such a move. "The words I am going to quote do not come together in context," confessed the Prime Minister putting together snatches of Macaulay and quoting him as having written: "A wise Minister will always dissolve a year before the end of the legal term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Amazing Fourteenth | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Architecture is the wise, correct and magnificent play of form under light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corbusierismus | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Weary & wise, the 50 inspectors of industrial science at its best closed their tour with dinner and speeches at the Waldorf-Astoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Industrial Insides | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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