Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headed home. Troy has fallen. Hector and Achilles are dead. So is the graceful Paris, and by the same curved sword Helen too must die as an atonement to the Greeks. A sorceress learned all this from Muschel, a psychic shell which reported in a bold contralto a vision of Menelaus stealing hugger-mugger into the ship's hold, knife ready. Aithra, the sorceress, had strange powers. Just then she managed a mighty storm to stay the murderer's hand. She blew their ship to bits, dipped them together deep into the sea and brought them up finally...
...light physicists at Washington was the California Institute of Technology's decision to build a 200-inch telescope near Mount Wilson. The present Mount Wilson apparatus has a 100-inch reflecting mirror. The new one, to be done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack, nor warp with heat...
Point was undeniably given Dr. Klein's prophecies by the occasion which prompted them. He spoke on the eve of the most important day the rubber industry has seen in six years. Fortunately, the day gave happy instead of dismal point to Dr. Klein's vision of a rubberless world. For on Nov. 1, the six-year British experiment in restricting export of rubber from Malaya came to an abrupt and official...
Finally came the grand, the fascinating, fiasco of Versailles, brilliant as so often before with the greatest figures of the day. Most brilliant was Wilson, the man of vision; House his man of execution-for in most things the two worked as one, supplementing each other. True, House did not agree in several vital points: he advised against Wilson's attending the Conference (lest he thereby lose prestige, etc.); he urged the political wisdom of including Republican Root and Taft in the mission; he favored more compromise with Clemenceau, and later the acceptance of the Lodge reservations...
...thus to put their children through an educative process--a process in which progress is measured by tangible milestones of years and figures. Passing of the final marks is the attainment of the ultimate goal. At no point must the youthful wayfarer turn aside from the path; his vision is fixed continually on the next grade, the next entrance barrier, the next degree. By the time he reaches college he too has no understanding of education and little greater desire...