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Word: wising (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wise Sets Pace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan Mermen Take Crown in House Meet | 8/23/1946 | See Source »

...money thought that this would be Saratoga's last season. The heavy betting tax (state and county total: 16%) and Saratoga's inaccessibility (180 miles from New York City) were expected to drive fans to the new Atlantic City track, also in full swing last week. The wise money was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Memories & Moola | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Army was using up its captured V-2s, growing wise and skilled in the process. When the last are gone, rockets of U.S. design should be ready to better the V-2s' records, in the invasion of the ionosphere. "One of 'our most important projects," said Air General George C. Kenny, U.S. member of the United Nations Military Staff Committee, "is in the field of guided missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Operation Upward | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...they decided, had only given Apollodorus the suggestion of a royal high sign for a command performance-no matter how far off-screen-it would have given the picture Sex. However that may be, and however well it makes out as spectacle, Caesar and Cleopatra is vintage Shaw: a wise and winning comedy, beautifully played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...silent as Ulysses S. Grant. . . . She is as wise as Benjamin Franklin and just as self contained. . . . Napoleon fought his battles with his marshals and so does Mrs. Netcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Legend | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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