Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a slight cold." They warmly said that for a man of his years he had done quite enough, and done it very well. At the final Conference windup, Orator Hull was too hoarse to read his speech and that was done by Mr. Velles: "Peace . . . clear vision. . . . Let us return to our particular problems and duties pledging that we will, individually and collectively, reject the counsels of force. Let us hold out to a darkened world the beacon of a just and permanent peace which we pledge ourselves to maintain on this American Continent. May the spirit...
...Manhattan last week that for radiotelephony between fixed points, Bell's coaxial cable provides "a piece of the ether which has been segregated from all the other ether in the world." Because it can carry a frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide and can "pipe" tele vision underground for hundreds of miles...
...responsibility that should lodge in the hands of men who wish to do and act has moved strangely into the hands of men who had no vision but that of the past, and of men whose political hatred for the direction of American life made them believe that through some abracadabra of legal learning they could turn it backward. ... In this contest of power between a handful of men and a Nation, no longer lethargic but vocal and tense, there can be no question as to the final outcome...
...Harvard Student Union is due to meet the most crucial crisis in its brief career this afternoon at Phillips Brooks House. There the membership will be called upon to endorse another fanatical onslaught on the Union's basic principles of non-partisanship. This time the enticing vision of a Farmer-Labor Party is to be the incentive for a departure from the liberals' previously announced ideals...
...newspapers has proved at times more potent than that of politicians themselves; at other times, as in the past election, completely futile. Always, however, it has vast potentialities, particularly for developing a new profession with a sound code of ethics, for breeding a new race of statesmen with vision...