Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address Bender discussed the specific problem of football players' choice of an admission to college. He pointed out that the G.I. Bill was helping many students, athletes and other wise, to attend Harvard who could never have done so during peacetime, and said that his standard of admission was the character of the individual and his desire and ability for education--not name or purely scholastic ability...
Playful, rope-wise males promptly tried to untie her, only to be trampled in the rush. Miss Morgan escaped, left her assailants nought but knots, then lost the suit to the police...
Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
...fair combination of strict rulings and effective cooperation with the rules appears in many quarters of the Ivy League. While the country goes slightly haywire over its football, it might be wise to draw up just a bit and observe that the halfback who fumbles over at Soldiers Field doesn't watch his college career bound crazily out of his control...
Since Vincent Sheean's immensely successful Personal History in 1935, neither he nor many of his successors has succeeded notably with that difficult formula: the journalistic catchall which mixes autobiographical adventure, eyewitnessing of disaster, punditry, prophecy and philosophy. Some have seemed too wise after the event; many have not seemed wise enough before it. Drew Middleton's Our Share of Night is a welcome exception. It is written with rare honesty and simplicity. Best of all is his reason for writing, stated not in a self-conscious foreword but in the last sentence of the book: "Now perhaps...