Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calculated sabotage or to sincere, though groundless, fear of consequences, it is impossible to say. If this policy results in the loss of the Securities Act in order to attain recovery, then there will be one more important monument to the blundering incompetence of the bankers, whose vision is as narrow as their power is great...
...school, they popularized oil painting throughout the world and-what endears them most to dealers and collectors-they left precious few pictures behind them. Fewer than 20 genuine van Eycks are known to exist. Beside the Metropolitan's diptych only two others are in the U. S.: "The Vision of St. Francis" in the John Graver Johnson Collection in Philadelphia; the "Annunciation," purchased from the Soviet Government four years ago. The history of the Metropolitan's diptych is well known. It was discovered in Spain by the Russian Ambassador Dmitri Pavlovitch Tatischev, was bequeathed by him to Tsar...
...churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon of the Mass Bishop Perry exclaimed: "The way of communion with God is the only way by which Christian reunion shall at last be realized. Catholic Christianity bears witness to the wholeness of faith, it is a spiritual condition essential to the vision of God's whole...
...Daladier's successor are each aiming for the vast golden apple of imperialism, expansion of exports and restriction of imports. Each of them has stated this explicitly. None of them has suggested how it can be simultaneously achieved by everybody. But it does not take a very piercing vision to see what will happen if it be simultaneously attempted by everybody, although some may cloak it as a "favorable monetary position" and others bare it as international Fascism...
...essential difference between Governor Murray's threat and the threat of Jefferson Davis to the Union in 1860. Washington used another word then, but the conflict of individual and national interests is substantially the same in either case. Governor Murray is a constitutional lawyer of great ability and vision. He realizes that the proud boast of James M. Beck that we have no administrative law is a medal with two sides, and that it would be quite as reasonable for us to boast, with the Tartars of old, that we have no civil law. It is true that we have...