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Word: foresightedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The most ancient wooden building in the world, the 1,300-year-old Golden Hall of Japan's Horyuji Monastery, is unheated and wretchedly uncomfortable in cold weather. So when government painters worked through the winter to copy the shrine's twelve famous murals of the Buddhas and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lost Treasures | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Wayne is so purified by all this experience of birth and death that he takes Baby and heads for the saloon at New Jerusalem. There, as he knows he must, he meets the stern but just sheriff, a short jail term, and, of course, the banker's daughter-who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Their child boss is a cool, foresighted "premier," whose methodical plans for organized robbery are constantly upset by romantic little upstarts who think it is heroic to disregard orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Innocence & Experience | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Calgary's Board of Trade made public a letter from foresighted Donald Hughes of Miami, Fla. He would soon be visiting Calgary, Banff and Lake Louise, he wrote. He was enclosing a check for $5, and he wanted some postcards with views of Calgary and the mountains. "I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: Tourist-of-the-Year | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

As President Truman last week signed the bill providing $400 million worth of aid to Greece and Turkey, the Truman Doctrine badly needed a full directive and fresh campaign maps. Just what was the Truman Doctrine, anyway? Did it mean that Uncle Sam had turned world fireman and would henceforth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: All the Trumps | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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