Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyeballs. Salt and water in the blood seep out of the blood vessels of the eye and into the eye's cavity. Because this salty liquid cannot escape, it jams the retina against the wall of the eye, slowly destroys the tasseled end of the optic nerve. Vision dims, blindness ensues. Drugs have proved of little help; surgery gives only temporary relief...
...brimful of ideas for extending and improving it. But, though he thinks with vigorous independence about educational problems, he is not primarily a theorist. The New Plan, as he has often pointed out, is the work of many minds. His genius lies in possessing the courage and vision to effect new plans, the ability to administer them to success. As yet he has no political tie-ups, though he has served on the Chicago Regional Committee of the National Labor Relations Board, chair-manned numerous long-named public commissions...
...shared the benefits of a College which is permeated with the liberal tradition. While it is difficult to understand the significance of this unless you have lived in some country working on fascistic, communistic, or socialistic basis, it is a great heritage. Unless men of broad and understanding vision scan our economic, political, and social structure today, searching for the answers to our problems, we will find ourselves in a meaningless sea of confusion...
GEORGE SARTON: Historian of science and of learning, a scholar whose relentless toil and inspired vision are creating a new academic discipline...
...give Congress power to regulate all business industry, trade, and commerce. But with the states as reluctant now as they were in 1789 to surrender any power to the federal government, there is hardly any hope that such an amendment can be at present more than an elusive vision of Progressive thinkers...