Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never have we more greatly needed great leadership. Wendell Willkie gives the promise of this more than any man on the political horizon-great in high and honest purpose and equally great in ability and breadth of vision...
...running mate must be no political hack but a man of the same quality and character. Happily he is at hand. Eric A. Johnston, the most progressive president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in its history, who by his vision, breadth and ability has made an impression upon the world far beyond our borders...
...high-altitude flying conditions (reduced oxygen pressure), oldsters actually stand up better than youngsters: they are less likely to faint or collapse (apparently because they have more stable cardiovascular systems), suffer less loss of memory. With glasses, McFarland believes, many pilots up to 60 can pass the strict flying vision tests; one big airline has 100 pilots over...
...absolute symmetry in Wellington's political, social and military theory. Author Aldington calls him a world policeman. This is Aldington's way of acknowledging the fact that in Wellington, as in Napoleon, political theory and military strategy were inseparable. The clarity of the Duke's political vision, his mere knowledge of what kind of a world he wanted to gain, preserve and extend determined his actions as directly as the hills and the forts, the number of his troops and his opponents'. The difference was that Napoleon's achievements in both politics and warfare were...
...Precise Vision. The Duke who emerges when the bars of modernity are down is a deep and thoughtful man. A tall, awkward, lonely, violin-playing boy whose father died when he was twelve, he did not want to be a soldier. He wanted to work in a bank. He learned the effectiveness of the armies of revolutionary France when he commanded the rear guard in the Duke of York's disastrous expedition to The Netherlands in 1794, from which 6,000 of 25,000 recruits returned. With the clear-sightedness of innocent sanity he knew thereafter that England could...