Word: foresight
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...meanings of the words they read, was the beginning of an extraordinary change in the condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed to the blind. Workers from the American Foundation for the Blind apply their efforts to the readjustment of other sightless persons, collect funds...
...instrumentality that Harvard acquired great collections on France, Latin America, the Near East. Prussia and Slavic Europe; and to him is also due the acquisition of a splendid collection of books connected with the Great War. Throughout, his administration of the Library was marked by great foresight and sound policy...
...world. Vainly I tried to argue that there was enough of me to go round. "If there is, " I said, "something in my story that makes young hearts beat faster, is it fair not to give it to posterity?" But the was obdurate, and with typical Forecast foresight, I saw trouble looming...
...building. As the director of a large museum he realizes that often the forest cannot be seen on account of the trees, that the pictures and sculptures are quite overwhelmed by the surrounding magnificence. Therefore he compliments the men responsible for the structure on the restraint and foresight they have exercised. The student of the University may well join with him, in the eulogies he bestows. Assimilation of a large number of pictures is a laborious task. It is ameliorated, however, by the presence of the best possible facilities for viewing those pictures...
...WHEREAS, except for the valor, bravery and foresight of that great and eminent leader and statesman, the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, senior Senator from Alabama, this country would be defenseless against such an attack...