Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invention of the automobile. Once that invention was an assured fact, the time was bound to come when groups of actors would take to the road again, offering theatrical wares un- der desirable conditions of time and place. However, Bushnell Cheney was the first to have the foresight, the initiative, and the mechanical gifts to design the truck with its equipment, and to organize the actors and put them on the road...
Alexandre Millerand (1920-1924), 67, a lawyer of Clarence Darrow calibre, for 40 years a Deputy, the outstanding World War French War Minister, subsequently Commissioner-General for Alsace-Lorraine, a lifelong champion of decentralized government, pugnacious, obstinate, cursed by a lack of political foresight, prominent in the die-hard political Right, forced to resign the Presidency when Herriot succeeded in forming the Coalition of Left Parties...
...there is another appeal which the Times might have made, had it chanced to widen its phraseology. If mere politics be a phase of life little less limited than academic concerns nevertheless the sum of matters beyond the academic horizon is worthy more diligent student foresight. The pitch and toss of business, the processes of manufacture, professional contingencies, all are ultimates for students now in comparative remoteness from them; and the thought of the individual student could hardly be better employed than in choosing or pondering the chosen ultimate...
...work of one man has been largely responsible for the change in fortunes of this particular organization, and to him praise is due. His enthusiasm and ability aroused interest, his foresight created a wholly new unit of undergraduate activity. His personal qualities have dominated this organization, and the organization has responded to a remarkable degree. But like all men in college, he must pass on and leave his work to those who follow...
...Field, headmaster of Milton Academy, Mass., where many a Harvard man is schooled, lays out the fundamental studies boys must undertake to pass the college entrance examinations; urges parents and teachers to inculcate "independent foresight...