Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years old, and kids of 15 are to be seen. . . . The men's uniforms are mostly shabby, but the officers' are usually in excellent condition. Very many women soldiers - nurses, traffic MPs, and other troops. The women traffic MPs are quite a sight, but our Army is wise not to follow this example...
...Army Strategic Air Forces. In that executive capacity, just when the B-29s were getting a new atomic weapon which might change the whole concept of war, he would run the B-29 show under the overall supervision of the U.S.'s top strategic airman, wise, imperturbable General Carl Spaatz. In Spaatz's command were both Twining's Twentieth and Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Okinawa-based Eighth Air Force...
...high combat officer, equally wise in the ways of war and of Japs, said...
...most illuminating books in its field. A remarkable exception is the Report of the Harvard Committee on General Education. This book ranks with the most important American contributions to the literature of education. Indeed, I know of no work on education that is equally provocative of serious thought, equally wise, and particularly, equally interesting...
...wise child that knows his own father, but henceforth the Rh* factor will make it easier to establish paternity. Brooklyn's famed Blood-Expert Alexander Wiener pointed out last week that there are eight Rh blood types (instead of two, as hitherto believed). The factors are inherited and can be used to prove whether a given man could possibly be a given child's father. The Rh factors raise possible blood-type combinations to 288, raise an innocent man's chances of proving non-paternity from one in three...