Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conception about what science can or cannot do. Frequently the layman confuses science with magic and will swallow exaggerated claims for a new process submitted either by scientific charlatans or dangerously over-enthusiastic investigators. Some familiarity with the manner in which scientists think will help the layman to make wise decisions about scientific work, Conant feels. "Science and Common Sense" is designed to provide this sort of acquaintanceship with what Conant calls "the tactics and strategy of science...
...venture began after World War I, when half a dozen Christian colleges in China decided to unite. By 1920, under wise and gentle President J. (for John) Leighton Stuart, the union was completed...
Fooling doctors with her faked injuries, she confided, had been easy. She bragged that she had been in more than 50 hospitals from coast to coast, and in only one (San Francisco's Southern Pacific Hospital) had a physician got wise to her. The queer dilation of her left pupil was caused (she thought) by a mastoid operation when she was 14. She bit her lip to get blood which she placed in her ear. ("I made it appear to squirt from my ear by shaking my head.") Vomiting, she claimed, was easy, and her complaints of double vision...
...buck private at training camp" series you get a chance to see the buddy system at work. One guy is wise, the other is dumb, and the script writer is the silent third party who applies old jokes to new faces...
...Wise's experience may show up in any of the four events, while Skiddy Lund should ably back up Hart in the cross-country. The team is weakest in the slalom. Taylor will count on John Hauser in this event, although Henry "Butch" Horner is capable of surprising everyone...