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...ingenuity" in producing the planes and completed its contract a full month ahead of schedule. Said Brigadier General William T. Thurman, Air Force procurement officer for the contract: "The contract turned out to include a lot more profit than contemplated. But it was reasonably good procurement, even though hindsight shows it was not perfect...
Crucial Insight. Though liberal-arts education can never be completely Christian, or Christian education wholly liberal, said Princeton Historian E. Harris Harbison, a Presbyterian, the two are really indispensable to each other. "The goal of the liberal arts is to provide hindsight and foresight [in] this universe of things and events; the part of Christian belief is to provide insight, [which] is of crucial significance for living . . . William James remarked . . . 'When we see all things in God and refer all things to Him, we read in common matters superior expressions of meaning . . .' Here is the essence...
Britain's famous Finest Hour, in the happy hindsight of peace, was also one of its funniest...
...Hindsight placed the onus of defeat on the poor showing of the American distance men, as E. C. Taylor (O) won the two-mile in the record time of 9:29:2. G. A. Chisholm set the only record as he won the hurdles...
Double Questions. Catton is not so successful when bitten by the malady known as historian's hindsight. At intervals, he pulls up his narrative to suggest questions about whether the war need ever have been fought at all or, on the other hand, whether it could not have taken another course. For these double-barreled questions Catton provides double-barreled answers ("Fate can move in two directions at once. At the same moment that it was driving men on to destroy the unity of their society it was also making certain that they would not be able...