Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Washington's army supply accounts, noted: "Rum on every page." He received a delegation of National Guardsmen, told them that he would again ask Congress to authorize universal military training. He was presented with a maroon tie, emblazoned with a Missouri mule leading a camel bearing three wise men. Ex-Haberdasher Truman promptly twisted the tie into a salesman's knot, observed: "I haven't forgotten...
...When the Continental Congress gave Franklin the job of organizing a postal service, it got an experienced hand as well as a wise politician. He had been Britain's Deputy Postmaster General for the American Colonies for 22 years. As a British official he had signed his postal frank: "Free; B. Franklin." After 1775 he signed it: "Be Free; Franklin...
...delegation felt that rather too many escape clauses and loopholes had been written into the I.T.O. charter already. U.S. Chief Delegate Will Clayton said: ". . . The charter permits a greater measure of restrictionism than we believe wise, but we are willing to accept it if general agreement may thereby be attained...
Turning from France's political crisis, Paris' Franc Tireur wrote gravely: "It was a happy day for those wise individuals who, in this epoch, still take the time to breathe and know how to combine with grace the futile and the agreeable...
...plaintiffs, Abraham Woll 1G, and Research Fellows in Medicine Dr. Charles S. Wise, Dr. Martin Perimutter, and Dr. Andrei de Vries claim that the Riverside Hotel not only assessed illegal rental overcharges in the past year, but also allegedly refused both to change daily rates to a cheaper monthly basis and to return sums of money deposited as security...