Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph said unto Pharaoh . . . look out a man discreet and wise . . . and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine...
...blackened downtown edifices behind to minister to dwindling congregations. Last year Christ Church decided to buck the trend, put up a new $1,500,000 church on East Fourth Street in the same downtown parish that it had served for 120 years. While the church was abuilding, Bishop Henry Wise Hobson of the Diocese of Southern Ohio received a grant ($5,000 a year for five years) from the Episcopal Council to study the problem of reaching new people...
Dillenberger said that he thought construction of the crucifix would "not be wise for practical and theological reasons...
...Friend still hasn't found a girl friend, but come Monday, were he wise, he'd stick around to watch the happy renaissance of the Shubert when Can-Can arrives. Girls, yet, then. Boys, still, today, at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Last performance (guaranteed) for the month of March...
Only after Parry finished did the track-wise crowd get a chance to settle down. The games expanded into the organized confusion of all indoor track meets. The pole vault had started, but no one would bother watching until the bar passed 14 feet. Tobacco smoke gathered over the tight oval of the banked-board track while sweat-suited runners in their warmups jogged endlessly toward nowhere. Hurdlers twisted into weird calisthenics all over the infield. Here and there some exhibitionist dropped into a handstand, presumably to loosen his legs. Hordes of officials in boiled shirts hardly had room...