Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end this vision of free wheeling was somewhat faded. Some States are complying, but it takes more than a Governor's word in most to upset overnight a legislative irresponsibility that has been 20 years a-growing. Transport Topics, truckmen's weekly newspaper, ran a column-long, front-page editorial full of such charges as "Texas has taken no steps to comply," and "Definitely all trade barriers in New Mexico are not down." But when and if the Governors' promises are kept, they will remove one of the most important barriers to free movement...
Doctor of Science. Citation: "A geologist of rare imagination and wide vision, his enthusiasm has aroused psysicists, chemists and astronomers to cooperate in the advancement of his science...
...Wild Beast. What happened was this: the ignorant, the primitive and the poverty-stricken believed and defended the miracle. Roused to .a pitch of hope such as seldom touches the earth's hopeless, they became as powerful a fact for the world to reckon with as the vision itself. Franz Werfel builds up a compassionate and ludicrous picture of how state, science and the Church handled this strange wild beast against which no weapons had been invented. Scientists trembled in scorn and terror at the challenge to their royalty over the century. The Church, sternly resolved to distinguish between...
...statement like Crowe's strikes me at the very roots. It makes me realize what Valley Forge must have been, and the Marne, and Lincoln's dark hours. It makes me know what the American heritage is. It makes me realize our finest youth has a vision that our big shots lack. And it makes me believe that Ayres' creed, and mine, may win through in a world where some men like Crowe exist. It makes me realize, humbly, that there is something in the heart of fighters like him to which we owe honor, before which...
...coal and taught country school to pay his way through school, earned $862 his first year as a practicing lawyer. Three years after college he began to wonder what was wrong with his eyes, found he should have been wearing strong glasses all along: he had one-tenth normal vision...