Word: foresight
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...this led the Alumni Bulletin to cite Harvard, in 1912, as a "good example of the direct service a University can do to the country by intelligent foresight and readiness to open up new fields of study." The Alumni Bulletin was speaking somewhat before the fact. In 1925, Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed...
Raincoats and umbrellas blossomed, with H.A.A. programs taking over the rain shedding chore for those lacking in meteorological foresight. The Princeton band appeared in uniform yellow slickers; in direct contrast, the Harvard musicians pulled on assorted raincoats, sweaters and hats-or just sat taking the downpour in silence...
Commented South Carolina's Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston: "Mr. Hoover's hindsight appears to be as bad as his foresight...
...playwright husband (Louis Hayward) on New Year's Eve. She wishes that she could live that year over, except for its climax. When she finds her husband alive and as nasty as ever, and everyone else carrying on as if it were exactly a year ago, with no foresight of calamity, she realizes that Fate has granted her wish...
...idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped at him in the streets. He would like to know, however, whether they thought he was already incapacitated or just using commendable foresight...