Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glory that was Britain and might be Britain still is not in these men. They seem too humble even for middleclass, easygoing Scarborough, and much too modest for its Grand Hotel. Yet these modest men indubitably believe themselves the architects of a greater Britain, followers of a loftier vision than Pitt or Disraeli or Churchill...
Harvard as a center of world as well as national law is the vision of Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School...
...There is here a vision, which, if it could be brought to fruition might be of great help to a troubled world...
...admirers point out that he is only six weeks older than Harry Truman. They feel that he is one of the nation's few great Senators in the tradition of Borah, Norris, Daniel Webster and Clay; that he combines international vision with hardheaded common sense; that he has had the courage to admit a big mistake and to put his country above politics; that he is an American statesman known and respected abroad, the only G.O.P. candidate with wide experience in international affairs at a time when international affairs are paramount...
...raise the level of life of 47,000,000 Brazilians which could easily be done from Brazil's own resources. He wanted to open Brazil's potential oilfields to U.S. capital. He wanted to see Brazil's rickety transportation network expanded and made efficient. With realistic vision, he advocated settling 700,000 D.P.s in Brazil's vast backlands. Often he lost patience because Brazilians did not buy his ideas as quickly as he would have liked. And often his rear was harassed by confusion (or worse) in the State Department...