Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise guys did not know that Ted Friend did not like New York: it was not lonesome enough. He says: "People should be lonely once in a while; it's good for you." He tried to escape to a farm in New Jersey. Even that didn't arrest his thinning hair, and it meant 80 miles of commuting daily. He bought the Lassen Advocate for some $25,000 and stopped commuting...
...lost, by that bold adventure. Captain Lawson's book will not settle the dispute. Readers may feel, however, that it settles more important matters. It leaves no doubt about the fighting, tough, quietly heroic qualities of U.S. flyers; even less doubt that the Chinese are a unique, agelessly wise, able and benevolent people...
...Dive. For a company that had never lost a nickel in the nine years since smart, shaggy-browed James Work had picked it up for $30,000, Brewster should have been sitting pretty on Dec. 7, 1941. It had 9,677 production-wise workers, a fat backlog of $242,000,000. But since that time Brewster has produced more trouble than planes. It had five changes of management (including the Navy, which ran it for a month), a rash of suits (TIME, May 10), a series of slowdowns (although Brewster has a union contract highly favorable to U.A.W.-C.I.O...
Classes C and E played a real thriller Tuesday afternoon. The score was tied at the beginning of the seventh inning, there were two outs and three men on base when Don Wise, left-fielder for the "E" team, hit into right field for three bases...
...Hero Wise later managed to get himself home, and that made it 8 to 4. Hank Jaeger of "C" got a run in the second part of the seventh. For a while it looked as if the "C" boys were going to town, but the side was retired leaving the final score...