Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used in New York to elect Grover Cleveland 52 years ago, saying simply "For President of the U. S., Franklin D. Roosevelt of the State of New York," "For Vice President of the U. S., John N. Garner of the State of Texas," and since State officials had with foresight had 200 engraved four years ago, there remained, even after 47 had been cast and scores distributed as souvenirs, 60 left over for this year. For Roosevelt & Garner, 47 votes...
Inasmuch as most of the underbrush has been cleared out of the Yard, no solution seems to present itself. Local potentates who lash the planned economy have certainly shown themselves incapable of intelligent foresight. One regrets that the Tercentenary Celebration could not be held in the dust Bowl, but this also seems difficult. Perhaps the next three hundred years will see the answer...
...state is often a "bad loser and a poor employer" when it undertakes the functions of the entrepreneur in industrial projects, he advocates an increase in the amount of control exercised by the state, but with still enough leeway left to private employers to exercise that imagination and foresight which has been so instrumental in the development of the great modern industrial nations, especially the United States. He pointed to the economic systems of Britain and Scandinavia as "the sound conception of the relation of the state to the entrepreneur...
...report submitted by Professor Cross's Committee on Language Requirements to the Faculty Council should be of extreme value to the student Body. The question of elementary courses in French and German has been fairly and squarely tackled, and the result shows unusual foresight into the problems confronting the average student. The Committee has recognized that what is often most needed is stress on a definite phase of elementary training, such as reading, grammar or composition. Until these fundamentals are instilled in a student, the great value of a survey course is lost. With this in mind, it has rearranged...
...intermittently assailed by the authorities. Since many of them got into the industry from the peep-show or slot-machine fields, they are at no loss to discover means of dealing with such situations. Last week, frightened by District Attorney Foley's attack, pin-game entrepreneurs had the foresight, even before Mayor LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball's Landis and cinema's Hays, to tell them what kind of pin-game operation is legal, to intercede with authorities on their behalf when necessary...