Word: visional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom she bore four children-all of whom soon died. At 23, she joined the revivalist following of two emotional Quakers, James and Jane Wardley. The Wardleys became convinced that Ann was nothing less than the second incarnation of Christ. Later, it was revealed to Ann in a vision that she was Mother Ann-Ann, the Word. She had attained spiritual peace at last; she devoted the rest of her life to showing others the way. One of the first to whom she showed it was husband Abraham, with whom she refused to have any further marital relations...
...themselves and later for sale, was strong and simple. Yet it is some of the most beautiful furniture ever produced in the U.S. Their solid brick houses and great barns also have an austere beauty. Though Shakers had little use for book-learning, they were inventors. In an ecstatic vision, Shaker Sister Sarah Babbitt invented the buzz saw. Shakers are credited with inventing the one-horse shay. At a time when the quality of garden seeds was poor, Shakers gained a virtual monopoly of the seed business by the purity and vitality of their seeds...
...Papa Heise & sons. Except for a nurse hired from outside, the clinic was manned entirely by the family. Daughter Dorothy was the receptionist; son-in-law John Curtis, the X-ray and physiotherapy technician. The building (financed by $100,000 the brothers had chipped in) looked like a gleaming vision straight out of Arrowsmith. A two-story limestone affair of 68 rooms done in tile, birchwood and oak, with shiny new medical equipment, the clinic had been personally planned and its construction supervised by the five boys...
...There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also may have bad physical effects; on a long flight it temporarily impairs vision and deadens certain reflexes...
...clear up the blur, the owner of a pay-as-you-see television set would only have to call "Phone Vision" on his telephone, tell the operator what show he wanted to see; the price of admission would be added to his phone or electric light bill. A small, inexpensive (about $5) telephone attachment* would transmit the missing key frequencies to his set. Another show could not be tuned in without another paid admission. The system, McDonald predicts, will be operating within a year-barring, of course, legal objections by the Federal Communications Commission, which has not yet considered...