Word: shortsightedness
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¶Post-War Turkey does not em brace those large non-Turkish areas* in which the shortsighted Sultanate shed so much blood to put down the revolts of subject peoples.
Last week Mr. Bacon read into the Congressional Record what sounded more like the real motive underlying his bill. He called attention to a Department of Commerce report; locating in Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, etc., at least a million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres...
Emily Newell Blair, being Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, ought surely to know how men act in politics; and consequently her ramifications on this subject in the current Harper's bear the stamp of authenticity. She finds the masculine half of mankind exceedingly dilatory and shortsighted, consistent only...
Exploits began before this latter- day Benvenuto left his rural play-fields (Newark, N. J.) to cross the game-infested Campagna (the Jersey flats) and seek his fortune in gaudy Rome (Manhattan). He now recognizes that he was marked for high destiny when President Grant helped him shinny a post...
If I judge correctly the temper of the world--at least down to Locarno--there is probably less disposition to adopt the civilized methods of adjusting conflicting interests than there has been for some time. Few people realize or are willing to contemplate the fact that eleven years of devastating...