Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eloquence and vision of Henry J. Kaiser helped to save the 47th annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, held last week in Manhattan, from being...
...University of Wisconsin: "The vast economic, material body of the world lacks a mind to match it, and is not animated by a commensurate moral spirit. This backwardness is the tragic inadequacy of our time. It is the problem which, more than any other, calls upon philosophy for new vision and creativeness...
...takes a sharp, experienced eye to read an aerial photograph, locate targets, measure bomb damage. The picture is flat, looks unnatural because the camera has only one eye and cannot register distance, depth, or solid shape. The third dimension can be added only by double vision, each eye having a slightly different angle on the scene. Such photographs have long been made by double cameras with lenses as far apart as are human eyes. But the production of motion pictures in three dimensions has lagged...
They were given an Enlisted Reserve Corps that even now does not know when it will be called. They were tossed an incredibly flexible system of Selective Service, which provides that a man with almost finagling vision will be 1-A in one district, and a veritable Atlas be pushed into 1-B in another. Into their perplexed faces was thrown the unsolved problem of the high-school graduate's future, whether it be education or complete military training. And they were told to advise 3600 men of draft age exactly what...
...referee is often screened out of a play, missing the action, and drawing cat-calls from bitter partisans who feel that their team is being fouled without seeing justice done. "Putting the referees up there over the baskets should give them positions of almost perfect vision," Brown declared, "since it is true that the majority of fouls are caused by lateral action which can be seen best from above...