Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allen would have the chance to use those talents to the full. He had been called home to strengthen the "Voice of America" and State's other "information and educational" projects. Though the U.S. is still none too sure of itself propaganda-wise, it now realized that an adequate and intelligent explanation of U.S. policies abroad is almost as important as ERP itself...
...With that added aid, students could plan course programs more easily for two years ahead. In any case, the Faculty's decision to bring its once-mysterious catalogue up to date is an encouraging sing of progress--a sign which is paralleled by its other wise decision to abolish compulsory hour exams, attendance, and mid-term grades. Things seem to be looking...
...best hitter go the distance in only three exhibition games-all against the Red Sox. Clearly, each team wanted to establish its superiority before the season even began. It was a war of nerves between the two clubs that would fight it out for the American League flag (the wise guys had already voted the other six clubs out of the running). The Yankees won again...
...association with Alfred Fischer) can't quite hide its late igth Century look or its early G.B.S. grin. A scrambly farce, it treats of modern-minded matrons separated from their husbands, children trying to track down their father, a penniless dentist wooing a would-be unromantic miss, a wise waiter whose son is a distinguished barrister. Shaw called You Never Can Tell a potboiler, and few-even of his admirers -would call it art. But though Shaw may seem to be writing down in it, actually he is tuning up. In its satiric toots and twangs about family life...
...Wise discussed ERP from a political point of view, saying that the present world crisis was brought about by the war-provoking actions of the Truman administration, particularly the Truman Doctrine, and that the Marshall plan was continuing in this dangerous path...