Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailed he addressed a rain-soaked multitude. "I see nothing on the horizon," said he despondently, "to warrant hope. I was born an optimist and I am hoping against hope. My faith is in God and He seems to have made my way clear for me to go to London. Therefore I expect that He will use me as His instrument for the service of humanity. For me the service of India is identical with the service of humanity...
...missionary reached Shanghai last week from the flooded region and reported the creation of a great shallow inland sea, 200 miles long, yellow and endless to the horizon...
...Cunarder turned south from her North Atlantic lane; the Japanese freighter Toledo Maru came heavily about to go to the rescue; just over the horizon a Cuban sugar tramp crawled patiently on, having no wireless...
...best of navigators is impotent with neither sky nor horizon to work with, and that was the Winnie Mae's situation halfway across the Atlantic. "I don't think we can honestly say we were lost," Post said later, "but we just didn't know where we were" when they found themselves over land next morning. They spotted an airport, landed, asked: "Is this England, Scotland or Wales?"* It was Sealand Airdrome near Chester, England, 16 hr. 17 min. from Harbor Grace...
Since we have admitted that education does perform a definite function in leading civilization toward a certain fleeing but over-visible horizon, and since a true educational system is a true relationship between teacher and student, it is quite apparent that the college has just as much right to pick its students as to choose its teachers. If Plato had not believed this, we might never have hoard of Aristotle...