Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight, Albert foreshadowed the direction of his future biblical criticism when he asked, on reading the story of the Three Wise Men, how the parents of Jesus could have been poor after receiving the gold and costly gifts the Magi brought. "And that the Wise Men should never have troubled themselves again about the Child Jesus was to me incomprehensible. The absence, too, of any record of the shepherds of Bethlehem becoming disciples gave me a severe shock...
...days later his horse returned, bringing a herd of wild horses back with him. The neighbors came to congratulate him, and the wise man said: 'Who knows what is bad luck or good luck...
...terror closing in. Some readers will not have the patience to keep track of the dozens of lightly sketched characters; others will gag on the implication that communism was the only answer to Mussolini. But A Tale of Poor Lovers is no U.S.-brand party-line novel. It is wise, involved and European-a swarming microcosm of social and psychological complexities in modern Italian life...
...free trade in ideas" of Justice Holmes--a graduate of 1861--which is no more than saying that she believes in the principles of Milton's "Arcopagitica" (1644), of Jefferson's First Inaugural (1801), and of Mill's "Essay on Liberty" (1859). She thinks that repression is not wise or workable under our system, that wide latitude for conflicting views affords the best chance for good government, and that in suppression usually lies the greater peril. Harvard is not afraid of freedom, and believes adherence to this principle to be fundamental for our universities and for the integrity...
...Donelan, John Joseph, Jr. (Captain), Goodman, William 3d, Groton, Calvert Cottrell, Harris, Nathantel Lothrop, Jr., Bickey, William Moran, Howland, Neil, Morrison, Gordon Mackey, Jr., Robinson, Ralph Lindsay Flanders, Simonds, Jonsthan Otis, Stern, Roger Waldstein, Switzer, Alan Alexander, Jr., Thompson, Robert Burlis, Walsh, Charles Sario, Jr., Webb, John Crawford, Jr., Wise, Timothy John Willard. Young, Henry Arthur, Chapin, Aldus Riggins (Manager...