Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfaction of the human soul" "in a new spatial vision." he holds to be more important than structural economy and functional perfection. "More than ever before it is in the hands of us architects to help our contemporaries to lead a natural and sensible life instead of paying tribute to the false gods of make believe...
...highest aim to produce the type of men who are able to visualize an entity rather than let themselves get absorbed too early in the narrow channels of specialization. Our century has produced the expert types in millions. Let us make way now for the men of vision...
...imagination of men, men of prophetic soul, dreaming on things to come. Its flight was just as much of a victory as any adventure that enlarges the horizons of men and its fall more clamitous than any academic disaster, since it proved the final round-up of many whose vision made...
With this ambitious but entirely practicable vision, Ducks Unlimited has in three months enlisted thousands of sportsmen throughout the land, set up active recruiting committees in 35 States. Four Canadian directors of the organization have been selected, four U. S. directors will soon be named. Frederick Hudson Ecker, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., has agreed to serve as treasurer of Ducks Unlimited, spending $600,000 per year for five years. Already enough has been pledged so that, when the ice goes out of Canadian lakes late this spring, Ducks Unlimited can set to work to make its name come...
Besides glare and color blindness a common defect of vision is "tunnel vision". A person falls in this catagory, if he cannot see more than 60 degrees to etiher side, when his eyes are focused straight ahead. Average range of vision is about 85 degrees on either side...