Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size, prints these pages in blocks of one hundred on a 6 in. by 9 in. card. For reading, the card is inserted in a "reflectoscope" which enlarges each microprinted page to 9 in. by 12 inches. Only one page at a time appears in the reader's vision, and a mechanical finder enables him to turn quickly to the page he wants...
Last week four U.S. correspondents, including TIME'S Richard Lauterbach, returned to Moscow with the vision of a new, raw world still in their eyes. By permission of Marshal Stalin, they had gone with Eric Johnston into the industrial empire beyond the Urals...
...strength of Mrs. Berlin's writing is in its honesty, in the maturity of her vision of character, her ability to be unsparing without being malicious. Its weakness is that situations, intense and often moving, are not exhausted of their drama before other complications crowd them out. The book has its lyric passages, but they are more often merely an attempt to achieve lyricism, and the subject is in itself harsh...
Senator Connally (growing impatient); "In looking into his private crystal ball, the Senator may be able to see the solutions to all problems. . . . The Senator from Texas does not profess any such vision or any such knowledge. . . . Mr. President, this question is greater than political parties. It is greater than the Democratic Party. It is greater than even the Republican Party. This is a great world problem and I do not wish to treat it from a 'peanut' attitude. . . . There ought to be an American attitude...
...first geologist ever to be a Standard president, Eugene Holman made his most notable claim to the public's attention in April, when he calmly contradicted Oil Boss Harold Ickes' shrill predictions of an oil famine. Said Eugene Holman: If U.S. business has vigor, vision and a cooperative Government, the nation's oil should last for 1,000 years or more...