Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight of blood made him sick. Though he lived on a farm, his frigid mother for a long time succeeded in keeping him ignorant of the simplest biological facts. Vridar took to reading as an escape; much poring over the Bible helped convince him that he had seen a vision, that he would be a prophet...
...half of her brain cut out because of a tumor. Amazingly, she lost neither To hostesses, a "natural." sight, speech, intellect or ability to move about. Yale's Dr. Arthur Meyer Yudkin reported that cod-liver oil and Vitamin A concentrate are effective remedies for the impaired vision which follows excess smoking and drinking...
Dazzled by the Premier's vision of rich works, pleased by his hard money stand, the Chamber gave M. Daladier a smash vote of confidence 413 to 163, sent him to London stronger than at any time since his Government was formed. Since Premiers cannot camp indefinitely at Conferences, Frenchmen considered that the active leader of their Delegation will be knife-faced, keen-eyed, astute Georges Bonnet, Minister of Finance. To friends he said that the World Conference "with good luck" should achieve its objectives by early September. Continentals last week credited persistent rumors that President Roosevelt does...
...Brothers Van Sweringen did not have $8,500,000 but they had a vision of the Nickel Plate as a profitable road. With two chief associates, Charles L. Bradley, who owned the Cleveland baseball team, and Joseph R. Nutt, chairman of Union Trust Co., and with several lesser associates, they gave the New York Central ten notes for $650,000 payable one a year for ten years, and they also paid down $2,000,000 in cash obtained as a loan from Cleveland's Guardian Savings & Trust Co. by putting up the Nickel Plate stock as collateral...
...should be light blue. Starlight striking star dust should make the general illumination of cosmic space as blue as the daylight sky seen from the surface of Earth. If Professor Piccard makes his proposed flight from Chicago next July, he will have Dr. Struve's purely calculated vision of the empyrean to controvert...