Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen thousand people trouped into the Ark. It was a bigger, better Ark than they had ever witnessed before. With the great amplifiers everybody heard and everybody saw?a seething mass of people with animalcules performing on the far horizon...
...became an expert in financial affairs. In his earlier 'days it was said of him that he was "well-dressed, dashing, impertinent, conceited." Many were the complaints of his hauteur. Before the War his political star several times slipped from its position of ascendancy behind the void of the horizon. Ex-Premier Clemenceau once said: "I have two Ministers with whom I can do nothing; one is Briand, the other is Caillaux. One thinks he is Christ, the other thinks himself Napoleon." It was the Napoleonic streak that caused Caillaux to spurn his Foreign Minister and his Ambassadors and negotiate...
Much of this caustic comment can of course be ascribed to the reasonably immature state of development at which most of those replying have arrived. It is one of the prerogatives of youth to find fault with what fills the immediate horizon, and to ridicule all that has been found valuable in the past. Only by some such inscrutable order of things can progress be made and the world kept from complete stagnation. A system of this sort is not injurious, moreover, because young reformers are as a rule mercifully preserved from a sight of their own more or less...
...Levine agrees with Sukhanov, whom he quotes, that Lenin was a genius. Although the man had "an extremely limited mental horizon", having made up his mind at the age of twenty-three to adhere to the Marxian principles, he was "uncommonly potent and prolitic within these limitations. He was a rare combination of a doctrinaire, a statesman, and a popular leader; he was both visionary and practical...
...bright glow appeared on an otherwise nocturnal horizon. U. S. President Coolidge instructed Sumner Welles, U. S. Commissioner to the Dominican Republic, to proceed to Tegucigalpa and offer the friendly assistance of the U. S. for the establishment of peace in Honduras...