Word: vision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty dollars worth of books, the prize given annually for the best tutorial essay written by a Sophomore in the Department of English, has been awarded to Francis James Whitfield '36 of Springfield for his essay "Ultimate Vision" -- a study of the career of T. S. Eliot...
...Lake George. "Within a few days, you couldn't see a Negro [servant] within a mile of the lake shore." He ceased exhibiting it when, one day, he "released the monster just as a pair of newlyweds came along in a canoe. With one glance at the vision and utterly ignoring his bride, the young man leaped into the lake, struck out for shore. . . . When he sought to make up . . . she refused to speak...
...Colonel's equine innovations, however, have been less successful than others. When he heard about streamlining and wind-resistance, he experimented with little hoods to be strapped on his horses' heads. More disastrous was his notion, abetted by an Akron (Ohio) oculist, that horses with defective vision would run better if equipped with glasses. Result was a large bill and one disabled jockey, the rider of the first terrified mount in spectacles. But to Colonel Bradley goes credit for introducing the fibre skullcap, first worn by his jockeys, now used by all to prevent serious head injuries...
...temples of which all Christendom is jealous: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and the Monastery of St. John in Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese Islands.* On Patmos John is supposed to have hidden in a cave and received the vision of the Apocalypse (''The Book of Revelation''). The monastery on the site was built there by St. Christodulus in the 11th Century. The Dodecanesian Society in Athens last week insisted that Italian carabinieri had seized this monastery, possibly with a view to turning it over...
...more cheering decors of the Potomac shore-line is the vision of that veteran inflationist, Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, in cahoots with Mr. Carl Conway, the president of the board of the Continental Can Company. Normally, one would suppose them to be separated by intellectual and political incompatibilities too great to be reconciled. That these should have been forgotten, even temporarily, is a beautiful tribute to the power of an ideal. Human frailties, vanities, all the pathetic weaknesses of politicians and capitalists recede into the deep diminuendo of momentary oblivion. Oklahoma and Continental Can are at one! Osanna...