Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answers, pointing out that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic need, he gives brief, effective accounts of projects in Sweden, Russia, England. Readers may be dazzled by Stuart Chase's bold vision of a happier future for their country but they are more likely to close Rich Land, Poor Land, with an uneasy feeling that Author Chase has pulled some white rabbits out of his statistics, that there must be greater obstacles to his program than he admits...
Such a gathering as this could come together only to commemorate, an act of faith. This assembly honors a vision three centuries old and in so doing reaffirms an intent of perpetuating an ideal. A hundred years ago President Quincy, writing of the founding of Harvard, used these words: "On recurring to the origin of this seminary, our first feelings impel us to wonder and admire." From such admiration grow the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary; with no less reverential feeling the sons of Harvard have once again met here to mark the turn of another century...
...began by telling you how a dedication in an inconsequential Dutch book had suddenly given me a vision of a small building near the sluggish Charles River where a few men, far removed from civilization, had banded together to keep the torch of learning burning brightly in their distant wilderness. That wilderness with which the founders had to contend has now been tamed. But we are threatened by another wilderness. We are threatened by a mental confusion such as the world has not seen since the last of the Roman legionaries were recalled from the borders of the Rhine...
...Hoover Revolution-who makes it possible, today, for you to operate without having a brick or two thrown through your plate-glass windows by hungry and desperate men-who has removed the galling harness of the "noble experiment" from the body politic of an exasperated people -whose keen vision and unbending determination to extricate the men, women, and children of the country from the mire of disintegration and disillusionment, has made him the most beloved and exemplary character ever to occupy the nation's most important post-and so on- countless incidents of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vision...
...three or four times a year a young woman living in Ohio threw fits. This went on for ten years. Finally she felt paralysis creeping upon her, suffered from headache, vomiting, blurred vision. Examination disclosed that she had neuritis in both eyes as the result of some pressure on the brain. With eyes closed she could not tell where her left hand was, or her left foot. On the left side she was insensitive to pain, heat, vibration. These left-hand symptoms indicated trouble on the right side of the brain, since the control lines are laterally crossed. Diagnosis: brain...