Word: foresight
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...greater than any of these was the share that went to Promoter Hollins. No hole-in-one could have pleased her as much as the $1,500,000 testimony to her foresight and salesmanship. According to current stories, the first move she made after receiving the money was to give $50,000 of it away, $25,000 going to Poloist Eric Pedley, $25,000 to another woman. No charity, these gifts were the result of a "sportsman's agreement" two years ago that the first of the three to make $1,000,000 would give each of the others...
...that if by any chance their team wins out they can begin their after dinner speech at the Chamber of Commerce pennant dinner with, "Now back in April, gentlemen, I made the statement that if we, etc., etc."--And they'll acclaim him as "having the greatest foresight of any manager in a decade" in the press the next morning. --BY TIME...
Nicholas Murray Butier has been right all-along and it is to be hoped others may have as much courage and foresight, to bring this matter to a head...
...this last foresight which took him last month to Washington, D. C., and, by a quirk of human affairs, to the borderland of another phase of the future. The Senators who asked him to come and tell about Radio Corp.'s plan for selling its communications business to International Telephone & Telegraph Co., were far less interested in his business ideas than in the effect which those ideas, publicly expressed, might have upon Owen D. Young's chances of becoming the Democratic party's candidate for President...
...hope that not a few of those who have faithfully followed him from lecture to lecture this fall will join the old stowaway in welcoming the dawn of a new year in that fair isle of liberty which lies somewhere to the southeast. For with all the wisdom and foresight of three wise men the Vagabond is closing up his quarters in the Lowell House construction shack and leaving Cambridge for the festive season. All of which may go to prove that there is a Santa Claus...