Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting characterized by none of the uproar that attended its anti-UMT rally, the Harvard Committee for Wallace last night heard James Waterman Wise '22 and Paul M. Sweezy '31 vigorously attack the Marshall Plan and support instead Wallace's proposals for world peace...
...increase in tuition income has therefore loomed as a last resort. About half of this increase will be made necessary by the drop in enrollment next fall. Whether or not it is wise to lower enrollment at this time in view of its effect on the tuition rate is a complicated issue with strong arguments on both sides. But the fact remains that even if the student body remained at its present size, a substantial tuition rise would be necessary...
Most of the rabbis of these Reform congregations have been trained at Hebrew Union College, which Dr. Wise started in Cincinnati in 1875. Last week, on the Tudor Gothic campus of Hebrew Union, 1,000 leaders of Reform Judaism met to celebrate the inauguration of the college's fourth president, Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 47. Handsome, dark-eyed Nelson Glueck (rhymes with click) became a rabbi at 23, but he is better known as one of the world's foremost archeologists. He spent ten of the last 15 years in Palestine, where he discovered and mapped 1,000 biblical...
...Arthur Vandenberg is clearly and predictably a statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom the active candidates could most readily come together ... of no other man can it be said that there are so many Republicans who trust him, so few who are deeply...
...Brensham, all the thieves and poachers are lovable rogues, all the women quiver with massive bursts of laughter, all the intellectuals are wise, all the drunkards poetic. Natural eccentricity and tolerance leave no place for nasty gossip and nagging. The vicar keeps live bait in the church font and nesting-boxes over the porch ("My dear fellows," says he to his wardens, "can you think of anything less sacrilegious than a pair of spotted flycatchers...