Word: foresaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a few far-sighted men originally foresaw the possible difficulties which would arise from the present choice system. Their voices were not heard. Yet the House Plan was not and is not supposed to be either invulnerable or immutable. It must be realized now that there is a very real and immediate need for a change in the methods of apportioning freshmen among the Houses, a change probably in the direction of the creation of a central bureau, if the House Plan is to fulfill its original purpose and future destiny, and that there is barely time to effect...
Critics of the seaway treaty came from Boston. Buffalo, New York City, Portland (Me.), Philadelphia, Albany and Baltimore territory which foresaw damage to existing trade routes should oceanic traffic be diverted to the North. Loudest objectors were U. S. railroads, seconded by their organized security holders including banks and insurance companies. Great Lakes ship owners likewise heckled at the threat of invasion of their fresh-water domain by foreign craft...
What happened was that Mr. Lowell foresaw the cultural crisis in American life and deliberately prepared for it. He was able to persuade or maneuver the undergraduates into an espousal of intellectual cultivation. Hard mental labor is now fashionable; in Harvard College, and better than fashionable; it is at last socially respectable and better than that, it is rejoiced in and enjoyed for its own sake by young men who discover to their amazement and delight that they have brains and that it is exhilarating to be able to use them...
...Cabinet meeting. Old Paul took his cane and walked slowly under the linden trees in the Chancellery garden. Thus ended a week of as tense plotting, bargaining and intrigue as Germany has seen since the War. Hauptmann von Schleicher. The most important man in Germany today, the man who foresaw this crisis, brought it on and was confidently prepared last week to deal with it, was not at the fateful interview. Generalleutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense, sat at his desk in the War Office fingering a paper in his desk drawer which he has had drawn...
...with the possible exception of Mike Sweeney, track coach at famed Hill School and high jump champion of the U. S. in 1895, who saw Venzke run his first races when he was a 16-year-old Reading millworker and later trained him at the Hill School track, foresaw his exploits this year. In the Millrose games last month, Venzke broke the indoor record (4:12), jointly held by Paavo Nurmi and Joie Ray, by four-fifths of a second. A week later, at the New York Athletic Club meet, he ran the fastest indoor mile in history...