Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome, moody lad who had such a momentous dream was Kingsley Fairbridge, 12-year-old son of a British surveyor in Rhodesia. The year: 1897. For two days he had been camping on the veldt without food when, cresting a hill, he had a feverish vision. The veldt was transformed into fertile farms, peopled by British colonists. Some day, somehow, he resolved, he would bring those farmers to Rhodesia...
...Harvard was landing a bigger fish than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard. At their first meeting afterward Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody of Southey's culogy of King George Third, and upheld Southey's poem against Byron's. Perry writes, "..."I do not usually care for a literary debate while eating lunch, but I could not let anybody exalt southey's poetry over Byron's and I contradicted...
...therefore we shall always pray for peace. All the world sighs for peace, all the world desires peace and for us, the vicar of Christ, for us the common father of all souls, it is our task to procure peace with all means. It is with this marvelous vision in mind that we bless...
Obscure emotional complexes of streetcar motormen which tend to cause accidents were discussed by Professor Glen U. Cleeton of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology. He set up elaborate equipment on which 700 motormen were tested for reaction time, coordination, attention, vision, etc. But the results did not account for all the difference between high-accident and low-accident men. An elusive factor in "accident-proneness" seemed to be quirks in the psychic makeup. One motorman had taken $1 from the fares and given it to a passenger whose hand had been caught in the door. When accused...
...made a loud pop. . . . I felt a jar on the front of the car. . . . I saw bits of rubber fly up from the left front tire. The salt flying up into my face had by now almost stopped vision through my goggles. I swerved out of line. I snapped the 'old lady' back quickly and there wasn't much trouble in the run to the stop...