Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huxley plainly intended his new book to be neither a show piece of erudition nor a collection of wise old sayings and bright young remarks. Instead, he designed it as a manual of man's relationship to God, as stated by certain saints and mystics. How successfully this perennial philosophy gets across to the reader depends largely on the reader...
Three hundred years ago a wise man said that 'to be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to be always a child.' But the color of the glasses through which one views the past is influenced by and in turn influences or emotional attitudes toward different sets of values...
Elections are being delayed until November in order to insure a wise choice of candidates; "any group that would be nominated now would be known to only a small fraction of the College," declared Ritchie...
...week. The Harvard CRIMSON, realizing that rapid turnover and a younger student body discourages a mature and consistent editorial policy, publishes, still independently, the voice-less Service News each week. Dartmouth's position is similar to Harvard's, though the Log, successor to the Indian, is slanted more Navy-wise...
...contract was both flowery and nebulous. It said that the company was "sympathetic to the enlightened and wise guidance of His Imperial Majesty . . . and his Government toward the destiny, which by history and background, Ethiopia so well deserves." In return for the concession, Sinclair promised to devote part of its Ethiopian profits-if any-to build schools, hospitals, clinics, sanitary facilities "and other public institutions for the enhancement, education, health, culture and prosperity of the people...