Word: foresights
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...Wood, after a romantic and able army career, beginning with Roosevelt's "Rough Riders", served as military governor of Cuba from 1899 to 1902, when the government of Cuba was given over to the Cuban Republic. In this capacity he displayed the same remarkable executive and constructive ability and foresight as Cameron Forbes showed in his work in the Philippines. Later he obtained a background for his new position by commanding the Philippine division of the United States Army...
There is no dearth of literary talent at Harvard, and the Advocate has an opportunity to employ and develop that talent in the making of a more readable and vigorous magazine than we have now at the University. The task will require journalistic foresight and considerable hard work. But it is worth doing, and the reviewer would like to see the present board of editors undertake...
...years ago made the mistake of confusing co-education with the omancipation of women. Co-education will in due time be something of history. It has failed in the west where it is truly indiginous and it will never succeed in the east." Ezra Cornell apparently had not the foresight of John Harvard, who founded his college as far east as the Atlantic seacoast...
...would be infinitely better for all concerned to have a nominating body made up of men of intelligence, foresight and executive ability, not bound by pledges prematurely given, and acting as best they saw fit in the light of changing circumstances, than it is for the party to continue to function through the medium of an assembly of acquiescent figure-heads under the domination of a few clever leaders. May the hand of progress soon ring the curtain down upon the farce of the preferential primary...
...afforded Europe in the first half of 1919 through the agency of Mr. Hoover and the American Commission of Relief. It was this commission alone that saw the European position during these months in its true perspective and dealt with it in that light. It was their efforts, their foresight and their perseverance, combined with the American resources placed at their disposal, which in spite of European opposition, not only averted an immense amount of suffering, but even preserved the governmental systems of Europe from a widespread breakdown...