Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report raised the question of whether it would not be wise to limit any one company, however honestly and efficiently managed. For example, a limit of 1% of the gross national product would slice G.M. to one-third its size...
...accepting Russian hospitality, it is wise to know when to quit...
...time on that project in coming months. Pearson told a press conference that a long questionnaire had been sent to the 15 NATO capitals inviting suggestions on how the alliance could expand its economic, political and other non-military functions. The Pearson-Lange-Martino committee-"The Three Wise Men,"-will collate the replies and prepare a report for the NATO countries, "for anything they wish to do with...
Later, as tempers flared still higher, North Carolina's salty Democratic Senator Sam Ervin cut smoothly between the two, reminded them that "Jonah made a very wise remark to the whale. He told the whale if he had kept his mouth shut, that thing wouldn't have happened." Both Jackson and Engine Charlie joined in the laughter and later shook hands...
...Syracuse University's gangling T. (for Thomas) V. (for Vernor) Smith, 66, whose wise and witty lectures induced hundreds of students to expose themselves to philosophy. As a full professor at the University of Chicago, red-haired Philosopher Smith served in the state senate, later was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, was so staggered by the plethora of bills born each session that he demanded Congress "practice birth control." An intellectually humble man who called his students "my junior colleagues," he once said: "Knowledge eventuates as wisdom only in those who claim no monopoly on knowledge. Wisdom...