Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institution of higher learning was to compare it favorably with the New England college and to predict a maintenance, in its students and graduates, of the New England hierarchy. Harvard, however, although sprung directly from New England soil and built up in her youth by New England zeal and vision, may be said to have widened her horizons until now, in the two hundred and ninety-first year of her existence she is recognized to be so representative of the United States in her enrollment as to be able to claim a national if not international status rather than...
...present limitation of nocto-vision, for purposes outside the laboratory, is that the infra-red rays must be supplied by a special searchlight...
...Author. Mr. Oppenheim modestly disclaims credit for his so popular work and pretends that he does not aim to please. He says: "I do not know how a novel will develop when I begin it. I get a vision of about two good characters?the man, he's the main thing, and the woman, very secondary. These two elements, together with my first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them...
...vision of that one Power which guides the world...
...notes "a curious lack of metaphysical power" in the U. S., but thinks this is only natural and temporary in a country that has been so busy. The U. S. will eventually see the vision too. Its insistence on the importance of the individual, i.e. Walt Whitman, is its contribution to civilization so far, and, being a capable manufacturer, it will some day add Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men, etc., to its already celebrated product, Liberty...