Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is an act of faith. We must not let ourselves be engulfed in the passing waves which obscure the current of progress. The sinfulness and weakness of man are evident to anyone who lives in the active world. But men are also good and great, kind and wise. Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life. I have lived with the reality of war, and I have praised soldiers; but the hope of honorable, faithful peace is a greater thing and I have lived with that, too. That a man must...
...bases-the last detachments of troops had been moved out of Ketchikan and Sitka, and out of Juneau, the capital of the territory. Under the armed forces' new strategy for defending Alaska, the U.S. was coiling its strength-its winterized jet fighters, its cadres of weather-wise pilots and its supporting Army troops-into one tight defense net in the Alaskan heart...
...have ordered some 50 plows. They will be distributed as soon as you receive your land. You will be asked to pay for these plows over a period of years. You will also get fertilizer and it will be wise for you to pay for it each year, if you can. Remember you must help each other. Those of you who have a donkey must lend it to those who haven't. You must do that . . . until those without a donkey can plant enough fodder for a donkey to eat. Then we shall distribute donkeys...
...gambling trade": in its "present inflated condition [it] undoubtedly does much harm . . . Let it rectify this or, if that is unlikely to happen, let the state impose wise restrictions, and there will be no need to condemn the trade out of hand...
...whose anarchy had a sort of godly license," and such gems of prose as, "Because you are very young, said Mrs. Stone, and very foolish and very beautiful. And because I am not so very young any more and not so beautiful, but beginning to be very wise...