Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Subscription Service gets many other and sometimes equally urgent requests that it is wise not to ignore. With TIME'S domestic circulation now over 2,000,000 (some 400,000 other readers buy TIME in the four editions distributed outside the U.S.), and the total circulation of all TIME Inc. publications over 7,500,000, Subscription Service receives orders, notices of change of address, and inquiries by the millions each year. And these inquiries include just about everything ranging from requests for back copies to demands for legal advice...
...Every political and economic guide supports a valid confidence that wise effort will be rewarded by an even more plentiful harvest of human benefit than we now enjoy. Our resources are too many, our principles too dynamic, our purposes too worthy, and the issues at stake too immense for us to entertain doubt or fear. But our responsibilities require that we approach this year's business with a sober humility...
...Life (MGM) is what the wise guys are calling "a bow-wow wow" of a motion picture. Based on The Bar Sinister, a famous dog story by Richard Harding Davis, it is in fact as nice to have around as any bright young pup, and though it officially belongs to children, their parents will undoubtedly be giving it a run when the young ones are in bed. The hero of this waggish tale is a pit bull, called Wildfire in the film as in the life, who looks like a mournfully overgrown white mouse, and will certainly win all hearts...
...group will meet this week at the home of neophyte councillor Mrs. Pearl Wise in a effort to agree on a choice for mayor before the next meeting. Councillor Thomas M. McNamara, cited as their most likely choice, will be under heavy pressure this week from the other independents--all supporters of Edward J. Sullivan--to go along with them...
...According to St. Matthew (King James version) : "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost" (Matt...