Word: foresighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foresight. In New Orleans, the Roosevelt Hotel, mindful of the wartime drain on manpower, advertised for elevator operators, concluded: "No one under 65 years of age need apply...
Reader Ulmer underestimates the foresight and capabilities of respected Jap-Americans...
...part the cathedral was saved by firemen who stood on the roof during more than an hour of terrific blitz and tossed dozens of incendiary bombs a minute to the ground. In part it was saved by the foresight of Canterbury's famed "Red Dean," Dr. Hewlett Johnson, who learned a lesson from the bombing of Coventry Cathedral, some time ago had ladders run up along all Canterbury's flying buttresses so that firemen could rush to the roof...
...Edward Waldo Forbes: A devoted son of Harvard whose foresight and generosity will be long remembered...
...Unlucky Joe the foresight to join the Army instead of the Navy his genius would have been recognized, because here in the nation's capital, most of the top-ranking Army officers are creditable handball players, and no national championship tournament is ever held without some of them being in enthusiastic attendance. Judging from the number of high-ranking Army officers who play the game, they must regard handball not only as one of the best conditioners but definitely a stimulus of the competitive instinct upon which the generalship of the military strategist depends. Those who have seen Unlucky...