Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Friendship Fund Drive is an agent of great potential power and benefit for youth. It is based on a breadth of vision which near sighted critics may fail utterly to comprehend The conversion of such critics is but a side issue of the main object which is a direct appeal of youth in one land to that in others. Thoughtful Americans whose minds have ventured out of the provincial stage will support the Drive...
...Critics. New York Times: "The first mature, unbiased statement of a clear and comprehensive vision of the World War. There is enough vitality for a dozen interrelated novels...
...mirage that has been flickering for weeks over a whole city block on Manhattan's upper West Side, ceased flickering last week and stood motionless, a fixed vision. It has the shape of a skyscraper of the Babylo-American style. It is the home-to-be of the Metropolitan Opera Company, a towering image of efficient U. S. culture...
...company to let his producing company rest the decision with the present holders of parterre boxes. To these he said: "Let there be compiled, by the 121 present box-holders, a list of 150 prospective box-holders who are eligible." The split was healed. The vote went through. The vision stands...
...Creek home. Chin cupped in hands, he was pondering on what to make of himself, and as the kaleidoscope of boyish day dreams passed across his fancy, he pictured himself standing in the open door of a schoolhouse, beckoning to enter a long file of dirty, unkempt children. This vision, he has said, "gave me the idea of my life work. I must prepare to give a chance to children who had no chance...