Word: shortsightedness
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¶ "Russian dumping is sufficient reason for the immediate organization of an economic United States of Europe. . . . Poor Europe! Stupid Europe, which is shortsighted and refuses to unite!" ¶ "I do not declare war on anybody, but I have beaten Socialism in Lyon."
The effectiveness of this scholarship system depends on the nature of the examinations on the basis of which scholarships are given. If the examinations are so framed that everything the student has to offer is called forth, competition will make the school training more and more thorough. If the examination...
. . I am astounded. . . . The Beck threat is even more shortsighted and more inopportune than the application of the railroads for this increase. . . . The audacity of his suggestion that the I. C. C. should saddle additional millions of dollars upon the shippers without any study! . . . Where the railroads assert a loss...
"Radio is worth $100,000,000 a year to the schools of America. . . The radio industry will eventually cease its shortsighted policy of trying to kill off stations associated with educational institutions." (Joy Elmer Morgan, chairman of the national advisory Committee on Education by Radio.)
¶ On May 21, 1881 Clara Barton (1821-1912) called a meeting in Washington which formed an American Red Cross Society, lobbied actively until the Senate had ratified the Geneva Convention which made the U. S. a member of the International Red Cross. This strong-willed little New England spinster...