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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tubercle bacilli can float through the air and cause disease in people who inhale them, why cannot weakened bacilli be transmitted the same way to achieve mass vaccination? This was the question that Dr. Gardner Middlebrook and colleagues at Denver's research-wise National Jewish Hospital asked themselves. Last week, after years of testing, they gave the National Tuberculosis Association a tentative answer: no reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Airborne Vaccination | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...fund managers: ¶ Investors Diversified Services, Inc., of Minneapolis, handles five different mutual funds. The biggest: Investors Mutual, Inc., a balanced fund with assets of $1.4 billion. Scholarly I.D.S. President Joseph Fitzsimmons likes to quote Don Quixote to explain his investment philosophy (" 'Tis the part of a wise man not to venture all his eggs in one basket"), but he keeps all his sales eggs in one basket by having I.D.S. sell all five funds itself, a practice unique among investment companies. ¶ The Wellington Fund, of Philadelphia, is a balanced fund with assets of $925 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Prudent Man | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...outfit had a decided advantage in fielding, but, most of all, they were fast-thinking and extremely base-ball-wise. Men like Bob Cleary, Tom Bergantino, and Frank Saia were never out-hustled or outsmarted--as this year's nine often...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Inconsistent Crimson Baseball Team Stands 13-9 With Five Games To Go | 5/27/1959 | See Source »

...general," as he likes to be called, not to ruin a poor helpless widow (Doris Day) and her two small children. With surly reluctance, he consents to make a nominal restitution to the "miserable broad" for her shipment of lobsters that died on the siding because of his penny-wise policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...road themselves. Inonu's spirited welcome and the public resentment against his rough treatment suggest that the country may be fairly evenly divided at the moment. At week's end Inonu canceled a scheduled visit to Berlin. Said he: "I do not believe it would be wise to leave Turkey at a time when the country is in such an excited state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Saint & the Soldier | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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