Word: foresights
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...economic foresight of retaining, both clothes and books is admirable; the economic optimism of selling them is praiseworthy. Far be it from Brooks House to stifle foresight or optimism. Nevertheless, an anecdotal punch line of William Dean Howell's is applicable now: "Distinguished men can't care much for their (old) clothes, sir. Their thoughts soars to 'igher things...
...flood tide of criticism can be dammed for it is resolvable into intense but insubstantial currents: first, a sedimental resistance to readjustment within facilities limited by the demands of the Army and Navy; second, admirable foresight in petition but feeble narrowness in attitude towards the "catastrophe" of conflicts, which, it is to be hoped, will soon be repaired by University Hall where necessary and possible; and third, unjust treatment of a catalogue that is eminently "honest," that does not waste pages on bracketed courses that will not be given, and does make clear the limitations which must be faced...
Churchill's terms may have been noble, but not noble enough. They certainly lacked much in foresight...
...pedagogy that have proved effective with bird dogs and masses. When the "Fascist Beast" was unchained on the side away from Russia, in 1939, Pravda and company kept the Russians constantly informed of the "War in Europe" waged by the "Plutocratic Aggressors," i.e., France and England. When military foresight required that the Mannerheim Line be taken, the Russian press reported at length on a "glorious Finnish revolution," wholly mythical, against the "White Guard bandits," i.e., the Finnish government. When Pravda, last fall, editorialized several times a week on the Second Front, observers could not help speculating on the Party...
...Egyptian Foresight...