Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last International" is Chief Analyst Cowley's prescient vision of the dead march of his comrades "against the Capitol...
Major de Seversky's vision gives a better idea of the future than the tame record (considered astonishing) of Hitler's triumphs in the air. It is no longer possible to print the specific facts about the U.S. air force which is building. But, without figures, the fact is no less true that the bomber of 1943 will show tremendous increases in speed, bomb-load and range over the fanciest models of 1941. And it is equally a fact, as De Seversky asserted, that, of all the world's nations, the U.S. is best equipped to create...
...vision and experiment for 30 years, the mercury-vapor turbine is now finally developed to a point where it may yield the 50% or more increase in power-producing efficiency which has long been hoped from it. For three General Electric engineers (in papers recently published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) report that the known faults of mercury-vapor engines have at last been conquered...
...Venezuelan Government) to help North Americans to understand Latin Americans. Simon Bolivar freed almost a third of South America in the name of democracy. He was driven out as a dictator when he tried to give orderly government to the region he had freed. His was the pioneer vision of Latin-American unity and hemispheric solidarity. (He was never able to achieve either.) Both his stupendous successes and his stupendous failures shed light on much that Americans find strange in the problems of Latin-American democracy...
Liberation. He was born of a wealthy family in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1783. As a young traveler in Rome, where he refused to kiss the Pope's slipper, he had his first vision of a free South America. Rising one day from the base of a column, he cried: "On my life and honor, I swear not to rest until I have liberated America from her tyrants...