Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hale alone among the scientists of the world had the vision and the courage to plan an instrument for scientific research which startles the imagination, and which, in the hands of Dr. Hubble, Dr. Bowen and their colleagues, is certain to bring the solution of some of the deepest mysteries of the Universe. To us the Mount Palomar Observatory always will be the Hale Observatory...
...Department of Commerce announced that there would be more than 100 special "weeks" in 1948, among them National Laugh Week (to help put a smile on the map of America), Save Your Vision Week, Large Size Week (drug products...
...memorable phrases of the Rights of Man, and his orations, readers will be most moved by his little forlorn admissions of the sickness of the age in which he lived, a sickness he recognized dimly that he shared. He seems not to have been driven by a clear vision of a better order; he had simply, like the mobs that were forming, seen too much of evil, and suffered too much under its unchecked rule...
...ways of the early Christians. Political salvation is possible, he thunders, only if based on a union of traditional religious ethics and the secular humanist tradition of the West. A way of life based on unswerving devotion to love, mercy and respect for human personality is the only vision that can save modern man from total destruction...
Stressing the reconstruction of western Europe as the prime prerequisite of "One World" and peace, Henri Bonnet, French Ambassador to the United States, told an open meeting in Sanders Theater last night that the vision of a world government depends on the economic rebirth of the world trade through the European Recovery Plan...