Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointments have doubled the wise of the faculty, while the number of students has remained about the same. An Education Fellows program for revitalizing teachers with past experience has been created. The Center for Field study has started a large program of community service and a Laboratory of Human Development has recently opened...
...Dodgers, winners of the 1949 National League pennant, were picked by the experts to run away with the pennant once more. Instead, in second place last week, they were taking the dust of the pennant-bound Phillies. Last week, also, a secret was out. Rickey, always a wise head at selling at the right time, had put his block of Brooklyn stock (25% interest) up for sale. The asking price: something around $1,000,000. The man on the inside track: New York Realtor William Zeckendorf, who specializes in big deals (he gathered up the Manhattan property which John...
There is already a Varsity Club, improved this term by the resumption of a full-time training table. It does not seem wise to spend a quarter of million dollars to move that training table and other club activities to another building several blocks away, when three are so many better ways of spending the money. A four-block walk is not the key to Harvard's athletic problem, and a new building does not mean a new football team...
Actor Fitzgerald's Irish whimsy leavens his role of a wise old police inspector, but the rest of the characters are cut & dried. Holden seems miscast as a railroad detective with a reputation for toughness. Since he and Heroine Nancy Olson begin to bicker almost as soon as they meet, cinemaddicts will instantly sense a case of love at first sight. Director Rudolph Mate deploys his actors and camera with workmanlike skill, and the authentic settings help to give much of the film a fair degree of suspense...
Helen Bevington often does no better. What makes her one of the pleasantest poetasters around, and Nineteen Million Elephants one of the year's happier books of light verse, is the wise, warm humor of an occasional poem. Some of them are bookish little pieces, with a humor as quiet and decorous as low laughter in a library. Example...