Word: foresightedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Materials. The 1943 circus economics are well in hand. Its foresighted buyers had a year's supply of canvas for the 77,000-yard big top and 40 smaller tents. They anticipated the loss of Manila by laying away 73 miles of rope-also a year's supply...
An inscription in the granite base of a flagpole near the modern playground equipment commemorates John Harvard, mentioning his foresighted concern for the advancement of education which inspired the gift of his library, half his estate, to the embryo Harvard.
This is a lot of staff for a department that shows up in TME each week with about ten columns of type, but almost half of all TIME'S more than a million copies a week go to business executives who may be basing important decisions on reports in...
Though De Gaullist guns thus disrupted Nazi preparations, Casablanca still managed to put up the stiffest of all resistance to the U.S. invasion. Foresighted George Patton shoved three tank columns ashore east and west of the sprawling city and hit first for an outlying reservoir. With that in his hands...
Apparently it did not occur to your letter writer from Providence, R.I. [TIME, March 30] that, had everybody been as "foresighted" as he in stocking up on tires, those whom he now accuses of lack of planning might have found it difficult to accumulate even as much as one year...