Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national in scope, although the several States should meet at least a large portion of the cost of management, leaving to the Federal Government the responsibility of investing, maintaining and safeguarding the funds constituting the necessary insurance reserves." Defenses: "This Congress has not only set an example of large vision for all time, but has almost consigned to oblivion our ancient habit of pork barrel legislation; to that we cannot and must not revert. ... It is childish to speak of recovery first and reconstruction afterward. "Ample scope is left for the exercise of private initiative. In fact, in the process...
...elements -- has in the past prevented Yale and other institutions from awarding honorary degrees which would have done them great credit and which as the years have passed would now be looked back upon with universal satisfaction, but the opportunity for which is gone because men of courage and vision have died before they received the recognition they deserved. --Springfield Republican...
...longer a somatic observation, but a personal compulsion. Judge Charles S. Sullivan of the Charlestown court is doubtless well-read in concepts of justice, and with long experience on the magistrate's bench unquestionably has formulated his own position concerning this most difficult ethical problem. Before his judicial vision unfolds more than seven-hundred years of British Common Law. The pillars of his chambers rest upon it; Coke, and Hyde, and Blackstone, are not strangers to him, nor the function of evidence and the rights of the accused. The Boston Traveler, however, is a conservative paper. Outside of occasional seventy...
...doctrines of Utopia he brought to Paris and he set them against the worldly knowledge of ancient Europe. Because he saw a vision he felt the people could not perish. In this spirit he sought to make a peace with the aid of a politician who had received his mandate from the people on the platform of "Hang the Kaiser" and a statesman called the "Tiger." Before the bitterness and diplomacy of these men the dream shriveled, concession followed concession, the concert of the nations lapsed into dissonance, and the dreamer returned to the repudiation of his own people...
...research and at the same time secure proper teaching under the preceptorial system. "But," says the skeptic, "where is the money coming from?" And to that question we have no answer--save that it has generally proved true that if the administration of a university shows the requisite vision and resourcefulness, the money generally comes from somewhere. Just ask A. Lawrence Lowell. The Daily Princetonian...