Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowell House and faculty shepard of the Pre-Medical Society. Most pre-meds in non-science fields, however, have never heard of him, although each fall word of him circulates among pre-meds like the news of a cut-rate butcher among housewives. Dr. Pechet, a pleasant man wise in the ways of admissions committees, dispenses advice with a reassuring tone, but because of his House duties and his own research work he does not have enough time for all pre-meds and their problems...
...wise men wink as they run for the sink...
...inevitable Democratic charge that Ike had sold out to Taft. Ike's duty as leader of the party was to get Taft and his friends at work in the campaign-without sacrificing those principles which induced the party to pick Ike instead of Taft. In this situation, the wise leader tries to save the beaten rival's face by superficial concessions, while retaining the substance of the victory. That is what Ike did. In his speeches there is no evidence whatever that he has surrendered any principles to Taft. In the "unity statement," the two men acknowledged their...
Foreign Policy. The key to his idea on foreign policy is in these sentences: "The containing of Communism is largely physical, and by itself an inadequate approach to our task . . . Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power." When Adlai Stevenson remarked, "A wise man does not try to hurry history," Eisenhower replied: "Every American knows the answer to that one. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over...
...found the number of returns we obtained at Adams House and the Law School were far smaller percentage wise, than those of any other place polled. This was probably because both places had been polled before. We therefore used the results of the other groups, clearly noting this fact in the story...