Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schmidt, who had been unable to get a job while the law debated his morals, was grateful, but detached, about the whole thing. "I understand the Anglo-American behavior pattern of saving face," he said cheerfully. "Very wise decision, we calls it," said the non-moralistic New York Daily News. "If U.S. citizenship were to be conferred only on alien married people and virgins of both sexes-well, we ask you." The Immigration Service sulked. It announced sturdily that it would continue to apply its "normal Christian standards." Snapped an official: "There is no use to subject the rest...
...Road to Peace." In Roosevelt and the Russians, ex-Statesman Stettinius warmly defends Yalta and all its works. His thesis: 1) Yalta was "a wise and courageous attempt by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to set the world on the road to lasting peace"; 2) "Difficulties have developed, not from the agreements reached at Yalta, but from the failure of the Soviet Union to honor those agreements." His book is a flat, deadpan report on the eight-day trading session that embittered many a champion of "open covenants openly arrived at." It is the most complete report yet made...
There is a longstanding and eminently wise football custom which dictates that neither the coaches nor the school newspaper of any institution beaten in a football game should say anything against the winning team which might imply that the game was won in an unfair or immoral fashion...
...back in 1902, President Eliot surveyed the overcrowded library in Gore Hall and "doubted whether it be wise for a University to undertake to store books by the millions when only a small proportion of the material stored can be in active use." He suggested that dead books could be stored in a much more compact manner in separate quarters. Naturally every professor was horrified by the thought that a book in his department could be considered "dead," so the idea was dropped for 40 years...
...more difficult process for the birds comes up when the apparatus is set so that a delay between two pecks is necessary for a meal pay-off. He eventually gets wise to this when he discovers that turning around between the first and second peck, or walking across the eage and back, buys him a free meal...