Word: foresight
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...Labor Party would never have come into power in British politics if there had not been a leader with vision and foresight such as Ramsay MacDonald said Mr. Sidney Wicks, editor of the Manchester Guardian, and prominent educator and politician speaking at the Liberal Club at luncheon yesterday afternoon...
...loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli." "Cal he was, Cal he is." "Fate pointed the path and the country lost a Chief-Justice but found a President." When proposing to Miss Goodhue "he gently spread a kerchief upon the carpeted floor on Maple Street. With characteristic foresight even then he sought to protect his right pant, for trousers were not in those days worn in Burlington, as he knelt before his "ideal." "The family might with some reason adopt as its crest the Cal-la Lily." (This is one of the many "wise cracks" after the manner...
Premier Pashitch is one of the great schemers of the Balkans. As far back as 1881 he conceived the idea of a Greater Serbia, and it was largely through his ingenuity and foresight that the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes came into existence. He is also responsible for getting the present Constitution through the National Assembly-no easy feat in view of the Creation opposition. He is now 75 years of age and is known as the " Grand Old Man of Serbia" or the " Father of the Constitution...
...Americans. But the absurdity lies not in Mr. Mellon's ruling, it lies in the wording of the prohibition laws. However much power fanatical Drys may believe our government to have over the rest of the world, the makers of the law had no swollen imaginations. They merely lacked foresight. The new ruling is at best a make-shift and it can be expected that at the next meeting of Congress the cause of the absurdity will be properly remedied...
...young emporer, on coming into power in 1848, might have won out over the Magyars, but missed the opportunity of developing Austria into a united states because of his great desire to lead instead of help, and because of his concern over petty details of the present instead of foresight...