Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME [May 14] says, "Douglas MacArthur, a man of enormous certainty . . .", "wise and tired old George Marshall...
...Look Inside. Many doctors were not satisfied that it was safe or wise to make these "blind" cuts inside the brain. Some of them developed "open" operations, in which, for example, the surgeon saws out a wide piece of skull above the middle of the forehead, or two smaller pieces over each temple, so that he can see what he is cutting. Boston's Dr. Harry C. Solomon reports on hundreds of such cases and on still more variations. Sometimes only one lobe was cut (this seemed to be less successful) ; in other cases both lobes were cut near...
Unlearn & Relearn. In his wise and witty book (written in collaboration with Lowell S. Hawley, onetime newspaperman), Dr. Fisher describes his postgraduate days in Vienna as "a turbulent, hectic period-where the task each morning was to forget three-fourths of what had been learned the day before and had subsequently been disproved; and where the task each night was to remember half of what had been purposely forgotten in the morning because the theories which disproved these things had been themselves disproved...
Magnetically guided missiles steer, like ships, by following automatically the pattern of the earth's magnetic field. When a long-range missile is guided by "automatic astro-navigation," it flies by night and has wise little telescopes to pick up certain stars. Photosensitive tubes note the position of the stars. This information, processed by a complicated electronic brain, tells the missile the course it is following over the surface of the earth. It corrects its own course if necessary; it knows when it reaches the target and when to explode its bomb...
From all that makes a wise old man That can be praised...