Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symbol of unity around which the distraught Americans can rally. But he is more than a convenient meeting ground, for he possesses an instinct for public opinion and a knowledge of men that is invaluable to the other founders of the United States. While he lacked the vision of the theorist, he had the background of a hard bitten practicality to use as a leaven for the political dough of Hamilton and Adams...
...vision of the House Plan, culture hoist with its petard...
Observing that New York is by way of becoming the financial centre of the world, Dr. Kemmerer concluded: "The all important question is: Have our bankers enough knowledge of international finance, enough experience, enough vision and enough financial leadership to take the position that London is now passing over to us? It is our opportunity and our responsibility...
...dusting. It must, indeed, have been a spectacle to her to see a girl who never failed in her recitation room sitting, in the character I had assumed, beside another who was known as 'the wildest girl in school.' But Miss Dickinson had remarkable clearness of mental vision. She made no ado whatever, but said, 'Well, if this is not fortunate! The mosquitoes have almost driven me out of my room this hot summer night, and if you girls will just come in and smoke them out, it will be a great favor...
Last week such an inventor started suit against Ford Motor Co. The inventor was Arthur L. Banker of Banker Windshield Co. In 1907 he applied for a patent on a clear-vision windshield in which the glass was held by clamps on the ends instead of by the usual crossbar. Four years later the patent was obtained, manufacturing begun. According to Mr. Banker, Henry Ford came to see the windshield, in 1913, soon used it on his cars. Between 1925 and 1928 (when the Banker patent expired), Inventor Banker claims Mr. Ford caused him $6,000,000 actual damages...