Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European situation, unless one wishes to run the risk of letting loose a new World War in order to prevent a great power like Italy from bringing order to a bad country. . . . The Fascist Government believes that it will find in the League Council a group of responsible and wise...
...Races. Presently the fog began to lift, allowed the nine racers to take off in the dark. Last to roar down the field, just as dawn broke, was Pilot Cecil A. Allen, 33, alone in a tiny, fat, Gee Bee monoplane, immensely powerful, but frowned on by the air-wise because of its radical design. Down the runway it careened like an insane bumblebee, finally bouncing into the air at the very end. Three minutes later, still out of control, it somersaulted into a potato field two miles from the airport, smashed to pieces. Pilot Allen was killed instantly...
...spin around the triangular course got going, it seemed their choice was wise. Out into the lead of the five other planes shot Turner, ''polishing pylons" with his usual wizardry. For nine out of the ten laps he apparently had the race won. Suddenly, near the finish, the crowd was stunned to see a thick black plume of smoke belch from his Hornet motor as an oil-line clogged. Out of the race dropped Favorite Turner, managing to land safely in his oil-spattered racer. Into the lead went steady Mister Mulligan to win in the slow time...
...time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary General of the Comintern (TIME, July 29). He was acclaimed with shouts of "Long live Dimitroff, our wise, courageous Helmsman!" Taking the helm of World Revolution, George Dimitroff prepared to give it a new twist. In explicit advice to the Congress of 400 Communist leaders from 52 countries, he urged "cunning" and "Trojan horse tactics." Hereafter Communists are to insinuate themselves quietly into trade unions, religious bodies and social...
Harvard's Tercentenary Class--the 300th since the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony deemed it wise to hand down their learning to the youth--will pass in a long parade through the historic portals of Memorial Hall, on Friday, September 20, as approximately 1050 entering Freshmen register for the opening of their four years of "higher education...