Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that plutonium, core of the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, had, to a certain extent, been tamed. It would still be a long time before atomic energy would turn a wheel or drive a plane, but the new "fast reactor" (see SCIENCE) was a long step beyond the apocalyptic vision of Bikini...
...Political prognosticators guess that Taft and Dewey will go into the convention more or less neck-&-neck-with between 300 and 400 votes apiece. They are certain that Stassen will have less than 100. Stassen is not the first man who is regularly named as the compromise candidate. The vision of General Dwight D. Eisenhower stamped-ing the convention is also coming to look more & more like a possibility...
...inner nerve coat) is torn loose from the choroid (the spongy surrounding membrane that normally supplies the retina's nourishment). The space between the retina and choroid fills up with fluid, gradually enlarging the break. As the undernourished retina deteriorates, the patient's vision blurs, eventually fails...
Finders Losers. Forster sees this return to nature's nakedness as man's salvation. In The Road from Colonus, for example, an English tourist experiences an ecstatic vision of beauty on a primitive Greek roadside. He might just as well have died then, Forster implies; everything after was anticlimax. It is not the finding of beauty, but the seeking of it, that counts. The man who attempts to isolate his paradise in Other Kingdom loses the one thing that makes it worth having. In The Eternal Moment, a woman novelist captures the primitive beauty of an Italian village...
...Vision. On last week's birthday Bolívar's disappointments were forgotten. It was his vision that still counted. The man who began life wealthy, who died at 47 and was laid out in a borrowed nightshirt, wrote an epigram to be carried like a torch: "The liberty of America is the hope of the universe...