Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...citizens conceded that aid to England, all aid short of a declaration of war, was of primary importance. All U. S. citizens agreed that the Defense Commission was primary above all things. And no one denied that the Defense Commission needed, and badly needed, a fast, tough, wise, sharpshooting chairman. In this particular case, the U. S. looked to the President not for an answer, but an appointment...
...Christmas eve, when normal people are hanging stockings and trimming trees, Harvard's astronomical wise men will be out in the cold wind following a new star in a new way. They will be following Comet Cunningham with the cross wires of Harvard's six best and biggest photographic telescopes at the Oak Ridge Station of the Observatory in Harvard--Harvard, Massachusetts, not Harvard University...
...balding, mustached Ed McGrady will try to do for Secretary Stimson and the Army what a whole slew of conciliators for the War Department and Advisory Defense Commission was unable to do without a strike-as at Vultee. Universally respected by management and labor for fair dealing and wise counsel, Ed McGrady at 68 will serve, without pay, as Secretary Stimson's labor trouble shooter...
...crowned. The crowd had taken its fill of side-show exhibits: insect pests, choice meat cuts, Sculptor Charles Umlauf 's 13 skating pigs done in lard. Then into the ring at the Chicago Stockyards' International Amphitheatre stepped a hulk ing, bullnecked man with sagging trousers and a wise, weathered face. He was farmer J. Charles Yule, of Alberta, Canada, who had been given the ticklish job of choosing the grand champion steer of the show. This was the big show's climax...
...Herman Shumlin) joins a good sound sentimental play with just the actress for the job: Ethel Barrymore. Although its young Welsh author is best known in the U. S. for his murder drama Night Must Fall, this is no story of a psychopathic killer. It is a warm, wise semi-autobiography. It ran for nearly 700 performances in London, many during the blackout...