Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become presidents, people who graduate from high school, give a concert, get married, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, or just move from one house to another. And with all its injustices and monumental blunders, it has been flowering-"In my lifetime I saw unfolding before me the magnificent vision that humanity had been gestating since man came out of the forests-the golden age of applied science. . . . Why should I mourn the fact that I have come to the end of my length of days?" It is a country of machinery, of the highest approximation of economic justice ever achieved...
Mornings and afternoons the missionaries met at the Sacred Grove, where towheaded Joe Smith had his first vision in 1820. Between sessions they could stroll down the lane to a low. white frame farmhouse. Like ten thousand other farm houses in the U. S. it had a sign TOURISTS. Its distinction is that there for $1 a tourist may sleep in the very bedroom where, according to the sober belief of 750.000 respectable people, an angel of God first appeared to a divinely chosen prophet...
...Americans have a major share in the sins of omission which have led to the present debacle. We proclaimed the golden vision of a League of Nations. ... It was a moral, if you will, a religious issue. There was a precious opportunity for church and synagogue to champion an indispensable plan for removal of the blight of war from the earth. But the record speaks for itself. We permitted politicians and narrow-visioned isolationists to destroy the only possible good effect of the World War and have thus nullified the sacrifice of ten million lives...
...public servant. Franklin Roosevelt laid up war materials for two years, preparing the Navy so thoroughly that less foresighted War Department chiefs had to beg Woodrow Wilson to give them vital materials out of Mr. Roosevelt's hoarded plenty. More than any man's, his was the vision that saw the need of mining the North Sea's northern entrance, the strength to override the two Admiralties that said "impossible," the ability to get the minefields laid that helped to end the German submarine menace...
...same requirements as this year will hold for the two announced courses. United States citizens between 18 and 25, in good health including perfect vision without glasses will be accepted of they their parents permission...