Search Details

Word: foresights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...subjected to just as close a regulation; we must go so far that "it may be necessary to have compulsory control of marketing, licensing of plowed land, and base and surplus quotas for every farmer for every product for each month in the year." No one possessed of any foresight could doubt that this would be the eventual end of the Roosevelt programme; but it is highly significant that it has been officially promulgated by one of the President's closest advisers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/20/1934 | See Source »

...interesting to note in this connection how this show of popular sentiment has quelled the roar of Congressional dissent which greeted the budget message when it first appeared. With the political foresight of glowworms, the Republicans were prepared to leap gleefully on Mr. Roosevelt and see him overwhelmed by public disapproval of his monstrous expenditures, whil they posed grandiloquently as the saviors of their country or at least of their country's credit. Mr. Snell announced that he was so shocked that he did not expect to recover for "several days." The several days have passed and Mr. Snell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...December 1927 Myron C. Taylor was elected chairman of U. S. Steel's Finance Committee and promptly started a "fiveyear plan." First he retired $340,000,000 of Steel's funded debt, a display of foresight that may have saved Steel a receivership during Depression. Next he set out to rationalize Steel's production, closing poorly located plants, modernizing outdated equipment. Later he began providing Steel with an efficient personnel, inaugurated a retirement plan that enabled him to promote able younger executives. Last week, his financial and personnel plans completed, he resigned as chairman of Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Whether such a measure will eventually lead to a more complete academic freedom in the high schools seems unlikely. That the plan may work with young children has already been partially, but not satisfactorily, demonstrated. The average young man, however, does not possess sufficient foresight to wish to educate himself, and must have some immediate reward or threat to lead him on. That such is the case even with college men may be seen by the fact that the Tutorial System has not succeeded chiefly because the work offers no compensation, and is constructed both at the pleasure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWTON'S LAW | 10/31/1933 | See Source »

...expense insignificant in comparison to the resultant advantages. The library, of course, is at once one of the most popular and one of the most useful of House adjuncts; further, no conceivable region is less suited to crowding than a library; if Bryant Hall was added without the requisite foresight, the mistake should be rectified at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRYANT HALL | 10/10/1933 | See Source »

Previous | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | Next