Word: foresights
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...roused much skepticism. Most doleful thought: the sub- marine will be fouled bv ice formed on its rudders and hydroplanes, will be unable to maneuver, will be frozen into any hole she makes in the ice. Warrant for the trip's success lies in Explorer Wilkins' caution, courage, foresight and ability, proved repeatedly through his explorations by sled, ship and plane. Scientific approbation of the proposed submarine excursion comes from the American Geographical Society, the Carnegie Institution, the Norwegian Geographical Insti- tution, the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History...
...undergraduates are unanimously in the negative. The answer seems to be that there is sufficient graduate finance. $800,000 has been raised, and can be used only for a War Memorial. It is palpably undesirable to return this fund. But it is possible, with a little patience and foresight, for the Administration to convince the alumni that a far more suitable memorial might be erected...
Intellectually the new building is a monument to the efforts and foresight of two people: to Russian Nikolai Sokoloff, only conductor the Orchestra has had, who at last week's dignified housewarming gave a particularly eloquent reading of Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler's Evocation, composed specially for the occasion; and to Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra's enterprising manager, out of respect for whom John Davison Rockefeller Jr., a one-time Clevelander, gave $250,000. Financially the rest of the credit goes to Dudley Stuart Blossom, tireless campaigner who with his wife gave some...
...General Staff had never considered such a thing. No one in authority had any definite idea how many men might be needed, how they should be organized or equipped nor where the tonnage to transport and supply them was to come from. ... To find such a lack of foresight on the part of the General Staff was not calculated to inspire confidence in its ability...
...dawn [on readers] that they have not been getting the news but a species of romantic fiction which they can get much better out of the movies and the magazines. . . . "As time goes on, therefore, one of two things happens to the popular commercial press. If its owners lack foresight and energy . . . the newspaper gradually fails. If ... they understand the nature of the process I am describing, they gradually transform the paper itself making it more and more sober, less and less sensational, increasingly reliable and comprehensive...