Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giro is completely wingless, is merely a fuselage with a propeller, a tail, a direct-control rotor. The pilot sets the giro's course by tilting the rotor. In the "readable" model the engine for the first time is behind and below the pilot. This gives him perfect vision on the highway, better balance in the air. By a simple clutch, he can apply power either to the single wheel at the rear or to the propeller...
Plenty of the rest of us are in just as sore straits but at least we are looking ahead. I know that their imagination doesn't extend beyond the ends of their noses, or at least they would have enough vision to vote for Roosevelt...
...Witnessed a pageant of "the Kings of the Earth" in which King Edward VIII was represented as attending, on the eve of his coronation, a holy roller meeting in the London slums, on which occasion he has a vision of conquering hosts of the Church of God taking the whole world the message of peace and teaching all to seek (he Holy Ghost, the Gift of Tongues...
Last week even readers with no great sentiment for Wall Street's old bulls felt the poignancy of these headlines. In 1886, when Henry Ford was sawing wood on his father's farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which...
...winds blowing over the plains of Siberia or Montana, sometimes by thoughts of Angkor Wat, "the lost cities, deep in the dead dark, no thought, no memory," sometimes by evocations of the end of history, when only birds will "sob for the time of man," sometimes by a vision of utter desolation...