Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oilmen were not, however, cast down by any vision of a great market lost to them suddenly of in the proximate future. Chemist Audibert's process had indeed been shown commercially practicable, but only for a nation with coal in sufficient abundance to permit the diversion of millions of tons annually from furnaces to carburetors. To supply France with synthetic gasoline by the Audibert process would require three or four million tons of coal per annum, All this would have to be imported as France has not enough coal as it is. In terms of coldest economy, the logical...
...vision materialized at Vienna last week when France, Belgium, Austria and Finland sent official representatives to discuss Pan-Europeanism with the unofficial representatives of 22 other nations -Germany being represented by onetime (1921-22) Chancellor Karl Joseph Wirth...
Signor Mussolini sped up the valley of the Tiber from Rome last week-up and up to crag-defended Perugia, the capital of Umbria. There he conjured a vision of sea power before men whose lives and thoughts are among mountains. Il Duce del Fascismo, smoldering-eyed, retold the ignominy of Rome before Carthage in the days when "Romans could not even wash their hands in the Mediterranean without permission from the Carthaginians...
...unchangeable appearance of the sky, with the slow and solemn march of clouds dissolving in a gray agony tinted with white." The latter is described as "Rhythm dancing in the atmosphere with bursts of brusque light. There is also the episode of a procession (a dazzling and wholly idealistic vision) passing through the festival and blended with it; but the main idea and substance obstinately remain--always the festival and its blended music--luminous dust participating in the universal rhythm of all things...
...tradition, a noble one, has been established by the choice of Gilbert Murray for the premier occupant of Harvard's chair of poetry. Its novelty can in no way mar its worth. Yet only by sincere community of interest and clarity of vision can the University develop and continue that tradition to the fullest glory of its man fest potentiality...