Word: vision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France's No. 1 battlefield honor is the Médaille Militaire. By a curious quirk, only generals commanding armies, noncommissioned officers and enlisted men can win the green-and-yellow-ribboned decoration, the former for their strategic vision, the latter for their bravery in direct action. Though the French War Ministry has no record of the number awarded since 1852, some 300,000 recipients are alive today...
...rolling beauty of the King's course at Gleneagles was a dismal sight the day of the matches. Haar," an especially bad Scottish mist, swept over all 18 holes, limited clear vision to 100 yd. Because a postponement was not considered sporting, the golfers trudged wearily around, got soaking wet, wore fur mittens between shots. Caddies stood ahead as human signposts to mark the direction of the greens. To make matters worse, hungry birds had dislodged old divots in their search for grub, left a mass of cupped lies...
Popular were Dame Laura Knight's studies of ballet girls and a circus scene. Of the ballet girls the London Times proudly said, "Right in size, graceful in movement and subtle in tone, with just the difference from Degas to bespeak an English and a feminine vision...
Pending tabulation of the results of his test, Dr. Clark described some of the effects which 54½ sleepless hours had on his students: "The faculty which suffers most ... is vision. The boys just couldn't see clearly, their notions of perspective were bad, their eye movements slow and their judgment of color erratic. Muscular coordination was low, tests of writing, aiming a gun, and hitting a nail on the head showing a great loss of accuracy. But there were periods when the boys seemed to make brief comebacks to alertness, something like 'second wind...
...means infallible. Though he viewed the 1929 stockmarket with a jaundiced eye, he was talking about the "last phase of the Depression" as early as the autumn of 1930. He can analyze other people's analyses with devastating results. Yet his own conclusions are often challenged, and his vision is sometimes curiously narrow. But given a popular economic delusion, he can demolish it in one swift paragraph. His prestige has grown uninterruptedly throughout Depression, while the stature of other economic prophets was shrinking rapidly. Today he is one of the most-quoted bank economists in the land...