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Word: foresightedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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At week's end the invitations remained unanswered. Tokyo spokesmen coyly explained that Adolf Hitler's statement, because of its "important nature," required further study; comment on "such matters as Japan's obligations under the Tripartite Pact" would be premature. Onetime Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: R. S. V. P. Unanswered | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Last week pubs and restaurants were crowded to capacity; foresighted people went early or made reservations. Social events included two lectures, "The Georgian Country Home" and "Six Centuries of Tun Huang." The Michaelmas term divorce list hit 2,000. Two million women had been registered, but only 575,463 interviewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Business Almost as Usual | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

The Pan-German Plan, says Author Chéradame, is contained in a brochure, Greater Germany and Central Europe in 1950, published with the backing of the Alldeutscher Verband (Pan-German League) in 1895. It conceived of the conquest of Europe and its exploitation by Germany. Remarkably foresighted chiefly because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 55-Year War | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Handsome, hard-hitting, outspoken James S. Knowlson, president of R.M.A., president of Stewart-Warner Corp., is one of the more foresighted radio makers. No sit-down capitalist, Knowlson was one of the first big manufacturers to go after defense business. A year ago he was telling skeptical Chicago cronies that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Get Out and Dig | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Modest Mr. Lovett would rather have the credit go to such professional airmen as Major General Henry H. Arnold (Deputy Chief of Staff), Lieut. General Delos Emmons (commander of the General Headquarters Air Force, who has long fought for more bomber-power) and Major General George H. Brett (Chief of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: New Man | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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