Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper, the comic books, a picture magazine, a magazine of condensations, and the book elections of a commercial literary club. If college men & women haven't learned to read the originals, to seek out the significant, they are literate but ignorant. Which is better, a nation of illiterate wise men, or of literate ignoramuses? Must we be either...
...despair, Monge turned to historical records, where he found a rich deposit of high-altitude lore. The Incas, who ruled Peru before the Spanish Conquest, were altitude-wise. When they colonized newly conquered territory, they always sent immigrants accustomed to its altitude. When they warred against coastal peoples, they maintained two highland armies. Each campaigned in the lowlands for only two months, was relieved, and returned to the high sierra to breathe its thin air and recuperate...
Pollyanna-wise, the Daily Telegraph was determined to be cheerful and bright about the whole thing. "It would be a poor heart which did not rejoice at this sudden glory of the uncertain English summer," it wrote. "Now that at last this cheerfulness has broken through, let none complain that this sparkling warmth is not to be borne." Grumpily the hot and footsore Standard muttered: "Do not drink iced drinks. They often bring on stomach cramps. Look after the feet. Eau de Cologne and methylated spirits applied at night are helpful...
...more than just a crack football back. In West Point's difficult Master of the Sword test (it includes chin-ups, rope-climb, vertical jump, softball throw) he broke the Academy record with 926½ points. In basketball, Davis was a good forward; in baseball, a talented centerfielder. Wise Branch Rickey has said that Davis was worth $75,000 to any big-league baseball club. Two weeks ago, after finishing a baseball game against Navy, Davis hurried across the campus to help out Army's track team (he broke the 220-yd. Army and meet record...
...this pattern of success, President "Pop" Shapiro had a seven-word formula neatly printed on a small sign on his oak-stained desk: "Fools invent fashions-wise men follow them...