Word: wises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans. The United States is Australia's model. We study everything you do and endeavor to imitate you to the best advantage. We have the greatest admiration for Ameri can spirit and vigor, and American methods generally. We want to be like Americans. It seems to me that the wise thing would be for our two countries to get closer and closer together...
...Strauss. Board of Editors: M. Bower, D. R. Falk, J. D. Fewster, J. K. Heyman, W. J. Kirk, A. E. McCrann, J. J. Madigan, G. Machune, M. H. Oettinger, C. S. Reynolds, A. Shephard, W. E. Slaughter, H. E. Sternau, S. F. Teele, J. A. Thomas, R. T. Wise...
...paralyzed in examinations. Often enough, both are wrong. If the boy can be found some afternoon (when he should be studying) engaged in conversation with a neighborhood farmer, or chauffeur or shopkeeper, it may be observed that he is neither stupid nor reticent. In fact, he may be very wise about certain things, such as farms, or gasoline engines, or boats, and he can talk to you almost with eloquence about what makes the bees swarm, or what causes that sputter in your motor car, or how to shoot the sun with a sextant. If you take the trouble...
...familiar--even the first year man with a sheet draped toga-wise about him, undergoing a few preliminary initiation stunts at the hands of a merry group of sophomores...
...Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr. Workman was broadcasting questions with ghost-given answers. The studio was plunged in darkness, for only so could he connect with his wise phantoms. Whereupon an ugly bevy of Chicago's finest gunmen entered, stripped the jewelry from some debutantes who were about to advertise a Junior League extravaganza...