Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graduate School is the only place for the student who majors in pure math. If he intends to go anywhere else he would be wise to take some physics courses...
...think it would be wise if Psychologist Charles would read a few lines written by Robert Burns on the subject of talking about other people and their manners...
...recalls Betty Hutton, as larger audiences have since come to know the freckle-face. "How is a woman supposed to make her living with two kids when her husband deserted her? Mom just ran a joint on a small scale. We'd operate until the cops got wise. Then they'd move in and close us down, and we'd move somewhere else. Marion and I would entertain the customers by dancing and singing. We really lived that way until we were 12 and 14 years old . . . Things were really tough. At one time we were down...
This week his winning way with paint and reporters was making news once again; a Dali Madonna appeared on the cover of This Week magazine, to illustrate an interview with the new Dali by news-wise Art Critic Emily Genauer. Dali had painted the picture last summer at Port Lligat in Spain, showed it to Pope Pius XII last fall. The Pope, Dali said afterwards, showed, "extraordinary comprehension" of his effort...
Only one Virginia-bred horse, Reigh Count in 1928, has ever won the Kentucky Derby. Jockeys are notoriously superstitious and even wise Eddie Arcaro is not a man to ride in the face of such an imposing tradition unless he has a good reason. But Eddie was curious about the 1950 form of Christopher Chenery's Virginia-bred Hill Prince, a big (16:1 hands) bay colt, which had won six of his seven 1949 starts, three under Arcaro...