Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dwellers have doffed any vestiges of indifference that they may have picked up from the former denizens for the Yard and have warmly welcomed their uniformed sisters. Similarly many of the present group of Yard-birds will undoubtedly be delighted to delincate the interesting features of Harvard's nautical horizon to the new arrivals...
...flight decks of U.S. carriers, dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters are being revved tip. One by one they soar out, their red and green riding lights skimming lower over the shadowy superstructures of a multitude of warships. Gaining altitude they form in flights, circle, flock toward the dark horizon...
This time the target beyond the dark horizon was Palau, 1,176 miles due west of Truk, only 550 miles short of the Philippines. And this time it was a far bigger operation than any the U.S. Navy had previously undertaken in the Pacific. In fact, both in its execution and in its objective, this was an operation involving the whole Pacific theater...
Harold L. Ickes recalled for New York Sunday Times Magazine readers a widening of the horizon which he experienced at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893: "The strange and even erotic goings-on that had been brought to . . . the Fair, gave me exciting moments of a new sort. I realized the importance of the Fair, and the opportunity it gave for a wide and diversified education...
...ever made such demands on the highest qualities of both mind and character. It is possible that the world may prove lacking in one or both. . . ." By 1937 his fears had grown more specific: "There may well. lie ahead of us somewhere, like a fog back on the horizon, a period of drabness, sameness, loss of personal liberty and low standard of living. . . ." And he voiced the menace as abiding as the danger of Indian attacks at night in the colonial days he had studied: "What can we say of the remainder of this century in which...