Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great help, but TIME'S Press editor forgot to put readers wise on the right...
...candidate for the Senate, Paul Douglas, declared: "This is ... a people's victory." He was right. The little old independent voter was the hero of Election Day. There was only one thing to his discredit and that was his casualness. On the basis of the vote cast -percentage-wise the lowest in 32 years -U.S. voters did not seem to care much about the election...
...round out the castern collegiate poll situation, Dewey got about 600, Truman about 40, and Wallace between 30 and 40. In view of this, I would like to suggest, on behalf of both the people of the United States and the girls of Wellesley, that Governor Dewey would be wise to make a last-minute shift and run for President of Wellesley--a position which just happens to be wide open. He would be more popular there than in the White House. He would be in the great tradition of Eisenhower and Stassen. And the most harm he could...
...Unconscious & Confession. The means psychiatry uses to make its cures are often experimental, and sometimes obscure. What about its ends? It aims to make its patients "wise up" to themselves -and thus get rid of a mysterious bellyache or a sad, twisted notion that a prince is coming to call any day now. That is an ambitious aim. Is it not, in fact, a challenge to religion on religion's own ground...
...would receive a B.G.S.; signifying that he had become a keener citizen by two years, a more useful wage earner by two years, a wiser family man by two years. What community or what nation can suffer because it is too alert, too prosperous, too wise...