Word: foresight
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...union by the archfoes of organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers before March 4. They claimed 300,000 members but of these probably...
...allowed to eat in the House Dining Halls is an eminently sensible one; as guests they will do no more to destroy group unity than do visitors from other Houses, or the friends invited to a club. The other two innovations put forward, however, indicate both a lack of foresight and the absence of sufficient hindsight to consider the crys of previous Councils for House autonomy and House tradition. The disadvantages of introducing non-members of the Houses into the House teams and libraries are manifold: the libraries, often overcrowded now, will lose much of their value; the temptation...
...spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident he had prognosticated to a skeptical people that the day would arrive when they would no longer laugh at his whimsicalities but praise his foresight; and the day had come. Armakeli's compatriots sang ubilantly...
Discussing briefly the crowded action and rapidity of change of the past 25 years, covering the existence of the Business School, Dr. Hopkins called attention to the lack of foresight in the present-day hurried world and the antipathy to repose and contemplation on the part of youth today...
Converse with 74-year-old Yukio Ozaki, former Mayor of Tokyo and member of the Diet since that body first met in 1890, is made difficult by the fact that he is nearly stone deaf. But there is nothing the matter with his foresight. Far clearer than most of his countrymen, he has seen which way Japan was heading. An unyielding pacifist, he has campaigned for world disarmament since...