Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physical effect like a cool plunge on a hot day. Most people are so affected by their first sight of the glow and glitter of myriads of artificial stars projected on the invisible vault of a darkened planetarium. Thus when a planetarium is opened in a U. S. city, wise news editors keep their elderly pooh-poohers in the shop and send their most impressionable young lyricists to cover the story. Thus, too, the four U. S. planetaria were made possible by gifts not from practicing esthetes but from a merchant, a soapmaker, a West Coast landowner, a socialite banker...
...various facets of his genius. Any anthology will skimp here and there, will give too much space to men its readers may not think highly of individually; it is safe to say that under Professors Whitridge and Dodge this anthology has consistently accorded as much space as seems wise both in the development of English prose and the attraction of their art for the present-day student...
...would seem to me very unfortunate for Harvard University to become involved in a technical controversy in regard to the mode of enforcing this law. For this reason I am taking the oath and hope that all members of the various faculties of this University will do like wise...
Further pressure on Memelanders (mostly farmers and fishermen) has been much exerted by Memel Germany, produce, which by used closing to the buy Fatherland's frontier to Lithuania and therefore to Memel. Still honking in the territory are 100,000 geese which other wise would have been bought and eaten by Germans. Incessantly Nazis suggest to Memelanders that they will be economically ruined unless they become part of Germany and that the first step toward that is "Vote German...
...find much novelty in Dr. Holmes's and Collaborator Lawrence's dialog. Retorts President Gordon (McKay Morns, the drama's best-looking bald man) to his Secretary of State, who has just called him a fool: "A fool? Perhaps. Perhaps the world needs more fools. The wise men do not seem to have done us much good...