Word: hindsighted
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...Hindsight is always easier than foresight, however," he said, adding that he felt it was unreasonable to suppose the H.A.A. should have known in September and early October that Saturday's contest would bring out the demand...
...either the present or future was somberly tinged, no reflection showed in Harry Truman's face. Next day at his press conference a newsman asked for comment on gloomy newspaper views of U.S. policy in Europe. The President smiled. Hindsight is a great thing, he cracked. What about the coal crisis? The President kept his neck in. He would cross each bridge as he came to it, he said...
...bread deliveries was the bakers' first step. Until bakers could set their ovens and machines to produce lighter loaves, until they could shift more flour from pastries and other products, there would probably be a bread shortage in many communities. But all these measures were by hindsight. They would add no kernels to the grain the U.S. had promised to deliver to the famine lands. At best, they would do no more than avert a failure to meet U.S. commitments...
...cloquence of the Faculty majority and the Administration, hindsight has proved wrong their insistence that the cutback would only strengthen the system and would in no wise sacrifice the thorough familiarity with a particular field of concentration which has been the main prerequisite for a degree since the inception of the tutorial system. A return to the superficiality which was the bane of the free elective system is foreshadowed in the scaling down of requirements for both the regular and honors degree in exactly those departments where tutorial has been hardest hit. The English department now requires...
With the aid of "hindsight," I [have] reached the opinion that the War Plans Division of the General Staff would have placed itself and the safety of the country in a sounder position if it had transmitted to General Short more information than...