Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Concrete. Ever since the mid-1930s a few big, weather-wise companies have had prophets for profit on their staffs. As early as 1937, San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric hired Meteorologist Charles Pennypacker Smith to forecast temperatures in northern California, where a 1° drop can change gas demand by 40 million cu. ft. But the real boom in private weathermen came after World War II, when a flood of new meteorologists and new techniques from the armed forces became available to industry. Now, at fees ranging from $25 for a short-range forecast...
...Angeles' National Weather Institute in 1945, Weatherman Edward B. Derr merely paid $40 for a set of 15,000 surplus weather maps going back to 1905. By using the old maps and current Weather Bureau bulletins to chart climatic patterns for his customers, and by using his weather-wise head in the bargain, he now grosses well over $1,000,000 annually, has a staff of four meteorologists (salaries: around $10,000). "We make the future out of the present," says Derr, "and the Weather Bureau gives us the present for nothing." The real secret, Derr explains...
...quality of Part V almost equals that of Part I, even though it may offend contents-wise in its insistence that art is a child's toy only, that "art is false and life alone is true," that no-one today lives long enough to profit from his own experience, that the day will come when there will be no people but only thoughts, and that God is neither omnipotent nor omniscient but trying to become both through trial and error...
...Players have not attempted to solve the problem of Sanders Theatre, but as the problem is insoluble anyway perhaps they were wise to ignore it. The stage is obviously masked and the sets extremely simple. The simplicity of the stage is contrasted with a lavish costuming job, particularly in the second-act palace scene...
...into New. As Imam, the Aga Khan was a king with no temporal kingdom, a sovereign without subjects, but his inherited spiritual authority fell upon his shoulders at a time when British rule was strong in the Moslem world. Reared by a strong-minded and worldly wise mother, his Moslem training tempered by English tutors, young Mahomed learned early to reconcile the vast differences in two disparate worlds and from the beginning cast his lot and his influence in the direction of British authority. When the Germans tried to win over Islam in World War I, the Aga Khan...