Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first thing to appear was a dizziness, with diplopia [double vision]. The following day, I was unable to hold a cup in my right hand, and my mental processes were beginning to fail me. On the third day, I was a wreck. I saw everything double, and in trying to feed myself, I was always feeding the wrong face. . . . Mental processes were askew. . . . My surgical instruments that I had used for years seemed strange to me, and while I knew what they were, could not get it through my head how to use them. Writing was out of the question...
...Office, and much of the time he and Katherine lived apart. Finally they were able to marry. Then Katherine had her first lung hemorrhage, and their gloomy reality darkened into a nightmare. Murry gave up hope of life, took refuge in "the world of vision...
...past twenty five years through the influence of its graduates has really been the most vitalizing force in the profession. For Harvard to fail in this effort, thus sacrificing so much of the achievement to date, will be to admit either that she has not sufficient breadth of vision to recognize the essential art of planning or that she does not feel it important enough to seek further some way of providing for the continuance of the school. Draveaux Bender--Massachusetts State Planning Board Staff Oscar Sutermeister...
...whole concept of this celebration appeals powerfully to the imagination of all who have any vision of what ought to be. The university will put on a splendid pageant in the Harvard yard and results of permanent value for the world should accrue from the collateral conferences. Indeed, the tercentenary promises to occasion one of the most distinguished gatherings in American history. --Boston Herald
...trustees did some choosing, too. In the 18 months since stately old President Ellen Fitz Pendleton had announced that she would like to resign, they had weighed 100 candidates, quizzed 1,000 alumnae, to find a woman who combined "intellectual honesty, leadership, tolerance, savoir jalre, sympathetic understanding of youth, vision, and a sense of humor." Satisfied that they had at last discovered such a paragon, Wellesley's trustees asked Oberlin (Ohio) College's Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee to become Ellen Pendleton's successor and Wellesley's seventh president...