Word: vision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westinghouse device serves industry as a delicate circuit breaker for aluminum welding, as a mercury vapor lamp for producing stroboscopic light by which to inspect revolving parts. A very fast series of flashes illuminates the part at the same point of every revolution, and thus, because of persistence of vision in the human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk, a shattering glass bulb...
...doubters began looking around for a successor. Most of them favored Brother Bolden, onetime president of Los Angeles' Realty Owners Association. But they reckoned without Brother Edward. He emerged from the colony swimming pool one morning, announced that he had seen a vision. The ghost of Brother Isaiah had appeared, said he was still running the colony, would deliver his orders through Brother Edward. Twenty-six "Immortals" bowed to the revelation. Four teen skeptics suspended judgment while a committee visited the grave to look for signs of an upheaval, found the long furrows undisturbed...
...William Thomas Ellis saw the vision first. He talked it to his friends, all pious Philadelphia church-folk. They talked and the vision grew until the whole land seemed to shine with it. They saw Boy Scout trumpeters leading mile-long parades down every Main Street. They saw parents and civic leaders of every town & city from Violette, Maine to Sap, Calif, gathered in mass meetings, with all of each town's choirs, orchestras and clergymen massed on the platform. They heard all these peal out "I Love to Tell the Story." In the midst of each assemblage they...
From the offices of the American Sunday School Union in Philadelphia last week poured pamphlets, throws, mimeographed sheets urging everyone everywhere to help make the vision come true. Saturday, Oct. 6, 1934, they said, was to be National Recognition Day for Sunday School Teachers. No reform, no new organization, no salaried jobs, no appeal for funds was involved. "It is just a generous gesture of 'Thank You' to a great company of noble men and women. ... If successful, it should be the most widespread and impressive religious demonstration ever witnessed in the land...
...nothing to do with the case. Said Chancellor Bowman: "I merely thought his position here could be better filled by another man." But the nation raised a doubtful eyebrow. Too many facts fitted too neatly into a contrary pattern. In 1921 hardfisted, go-getting Chancellor Bowman had a vision. He would dramatize and thus revive his huge,* down-at-heels University by giving it the tallest academic building in the world. For 13 years he has thought, dreamed, talked of almost nothing else. Under his flowery salesmanship Pittsburgh pocketbooks melted. His dream became 42 stories of clean steel towering above...