Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pernicious that it is incredible that no one has been forward enough to do something about them. Seeing the heart of the problem, John Jay Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus an enormous moral pressure is put on him to make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught to use his mind...
Suddenly a terrible vision swept across the Vagabond's imaginative mind. Sirens screamed. Great tongues of flame lapped at Peabody. Squads of firemen, regardless of personal risk or private property, ran in with axes. There were sickening sounds, and then the smoke-eaters appeared at the windows and threw out the cases. (Firemen can't be expected to understand about these things: lost of them are Democrats...
...does the President expect 1929's income to be approached until idle private capital is put to work. To be put to work much of it must be lent, increasing to new heights the entire debt of the national economic system. In short, Franklin Roosevelt's vision of prosperity is that it will be achieved only when U. S. debt (public and private) far exceeds that...
Like Lawyers Holmes, Cardozo and Brandeis, Lawyer Frankfurter is a firm believer in judicial self-limitation. The most relevant qualifications for a Supreme Court appointee, he once wrote, "are his breadth of vision, his imagination, his capacity for disinterested judgment, his power to discover and suppress his prejudices...
Buzzing cheerily over frozen Dominion tundra, Pilot Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...