Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the State men like Walter Huxman have been shining lights and dependable leaders in this commonwealth. They have rarely won official distinction. In the sixties and seventies and eighties they were called 'the silk-stocking democrats,' men of education, of talent, of character, of vision." I doubt if you would call that the description of a second-string politician...
...hold; the average is half that." I swallow my confidence and so on to get grades of 30% each on the Steering and Vigilance tests. In the Speed-and-Timing test I run up a score of 7 . . . More than five indicates extra caution in passing other cars. My vision, in all its aspects, is either questionable or low. My hearing, however, is satisfactory. The professor tells me that "it would be to my advantage to endeavor to drive as little as possible." I thank him for putting it so kindly, and off to the tower very melancholy...
...step in this direction, the removal of the compulsory sports item to the books of the college can be hailed as the beginning of the march of progress, even though it opens a nasty hole in the A.A. figures and leaves the endowment fund itself as much of a vision as ever...
Even if the vision is imperfect, there is some public consciousness of what the President's voyage to South America, might mean. That hypothetical entity known as the man in the street would probably say that it was a further attempt to create a new balance in the New World to rectify the Old. Such glowing phraseology, however, does more to obscure than to instruct. What the New World is very much concerned about is its own inviolability. It might, indeed, be called a policy of enlightened selfishness. Certainly the great stake this nation has in keeping the Western Hemisphere...
Black Limelight (by Gordon Sherry; Busbar & Tuerk, producers). The villain of Black Limelight suffers from "nyctalopia." This medical term actually means an eyesight defect resulting in poor vision at night, but for the purposes of Author Gordon Sherry (a pseudonym) it refers to eyes which can see well in the dark but must be protected by thick glasses from the light of day. The monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic...