Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams ran up a perfect score of 100 in the jump, but Harvard was only five points behind. "Butch" Horner placed fourth for the Crimson, while John Hart and Tim Wise were fifth and eighth...
Over the Bordeaux-Merignac aerodrome in southwestern France, pilots find it wise to buzz the field once before trying to land. Buzzing disperses the sheep that graze contentedly between the runways. At one end of the field the 126th Bombardment Wing of the U.S. Air Force makes its headquarters...
...fortune is rolling up, rolling up like an avalanche!" thundered Gates one day. "You must keep up with it! You must distribute it faster than it grows!" And the very best way to distribute it, advised Gates, was to turn it over to a philanthropic corporation run by a wise and able group of trustees...
...Joke. "The princes are sadly mistaken," said India's Congress Party Premier Nehru last week, "if they think that they can turn back the clock of progress." Nevertheless, in Rajasthan the wise money was ten to one on the Maharaja...
...Word for the Proud. This week the Met's new star was flying home with some wise words for her colleagues in Vienna. For one thing, she had found that the Met was "a warm house," that its audiences "know the fine points of arias and give their applause with perception." Moreover, "the most beautiful voices in the world are here [in the U.S.] ... I have never heard a better Rigoletto than Leonard Warren, or a better Duke than Richard Tucker." And as for Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, a pride of the Vienna company...