Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently moved his testing machines from the Massachusetts State College at Amherst to Harvard; the exact locale of the present establishment is the basement of the Cambridge fire house, between Memorial Hall and the Yard, where a formidable wire netting protects from the prying public a maze of glare vision meters, braking reaction machines, and other complicated mechanisms...
...honor of Brotherhood Day, sponsored by Jews and Christians. In view of the various reasons for his unpopularity with many of the pious, the speech was of political rather than religious importance. Although his Episcopal training kept him from invoking his Maker, he mentioned Him twice, saying: "The vision of the early days [of the U. S.] still requires the same qualities of faith in God and man for its fulfillment. No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival . . . that would sweep through the homes of the Nation and stir the hearts of men and women...
...article in the latest Atlantic Monthly. Perhaps the facts would not convince them that Roosevelt's aims and ends were not progressive, forward, just, patriotic, and sincere. But at least they would realize what, besides several billion dollars, the country was paying for its higher life and new vision. The end may be social justice, but the means, Mr. Sullivan proves with facts and quotations, is the extension of inefficiency, corruption, and spoils in the national administration such as has not been equalled since Andrew Jackson...
...much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth a man profit if he gain the knowledge of all the world and yet hath not the feelings of a gentleman or lacks vision and understanding...
Supreme gentlemen, here's the New Deal vision...