Word: foresights
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They were as ready as British ingenuity and foresight could make them. Their cisterns, filled with rain water from great catchments on the Rock's steep eastern side, held 140,000,000 gallons of water...
...Faulty, feeble and foolish," was World War Prime Minister Lloyd George's comment on the Chamberlain policy. "All the foresight and striking power in diplomacy and in strategy are on the side of the Nazis," he declared, "all the blunders, the ineptitude, the slackness on the part of the Allies...
...have about decided that the Glamour one looks for in college men is in the case of Harvard men completely overgrown with ivy. I am sure the founders of Harvard chose Crimson as the college color with rare foresight, to match the blushes of embarrassment at all the boners pulled by Harvard men. Princeton's Orange and Black symbolize the combination of golden sunshine to light the way to learning, and darkness to shut out snobbishness. That's why I pick Princeton to beat Harvard at anything." --Princeton Sunday News. (Ed. note: Roses are red, violets are blue-- Chaque personne...
...Roosevelt observed that this latest Blitzkrieg should make the U. S. people think seriously about the potentialities of World War II. Thanks to his and Secretary Hull's slightly awry foresight, the President had only to reach into the files, pull out and brush up proclamations and orders already prepared to orient the U. S. to World War II's greater scope. As though by rote, Roosevelt & Hull...
Nothing will do, declares Wells, except a social revolution, "profounder even than the revolution attempted by the Communists in Russia." That one failed, declares he, "not by its extremism but through the impatience, violence, and intolerance of its onset, through lack of foresight, and intellectual insufficiency...