Word: foresights
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With a remarkable lack of foresight regarding congestion of traffic the anchorites laid down the following ordinance that required more vigilance and a nice ability to measure distances rapidly. "When a Freshman is near a Gate or Door belonging to College or College Yard he shall look around and observe whether any of his Superiors are coming within three rods he shall not enter without a signal to proceed. In passing up or down stairs or through an entry or any other narrow passage if a Freshman meets a superior he shall stop and give way leaving the most convenient...
...Bach's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue; continued with Brahms's First Symphony, in a full-throated interpretation; was clever, cacophonous, to suit Strauss's Don Juan; ended with his now familiar spellbinding performance of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Again the city congratulated itself on the musicianly foresight and executive powers of Adella Prentiss Hughes, first U. S. woman organizer and manager of a symphonic orchestra...
...late Marshall Field, always autocratic, unyielding, glared at the Federal Commission before whom he was speaking, as if he expected a contradiction. None came. Too much had been spoken, even then, about this John Shedd, about his economy, his executive ability, his uncanny foresight, for the listeners to dispute anything that Mr. Field cared...
...Custer Massacre happened in 1876. Avenging troops cleared the Northwest prairie states of Indians, and immigrants trundled in on their Ticonderoga wagons. New country, new customers brought Field, Leiter & Co. new business. The Eastern states were changing into manufactories. Foresight and acumen were needed in all business and, as far as the dry goods business was concerned, John Shedd, who had risen high in the esteem of Field, had these qualities more highly developed than any of his competitors...
...invention of the automobile. Once that invention was an assured fact, the time was bound to come when groups of actors would take to the road again, offering theatrical wares un- der desirable conditions of time and place. However, Bushnell Cheney was the first to have the foresight, the initiative, and the mechanical gifts to design the truck with its equipment, and to organize the actors and put them on the road...