Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close to 2,000 trains late on the road, which has the heaviest commuter traffic (and lowest fares) of any railroad into Manhattan. Trains, always full, run nose to tail morning & night. But last fortnight Long Island suburbia was thrilled by a glimpse of a better future, a vision of clean, fast and comfortable trains, clicking off their schedules with streamliner punctuality. The Long Island would like to be such a railroad after the war, and said so, in a pamphlet issued to every passenger. The pamphlet was based on recommendations made by J. G. White Engineering Corp., which...
According to word received by Elliott Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau here, the candidate must first join the Enlisted Reserve Corps, after which he must make application for the new training unit. To pass the ERC physical exam he must have 20/100 vision or better and have an active duty physique...
...small range finder and a complex instantaneous computing machine. Only arbitrary adjustment on it is a dial which the gunner sets for the wingspread (in feet) of the attacking plane. After that he frames the plane between illumined reticules (cross hairs or similar lines imposed on the field of vision), in a mirror on the sight, and keeps it framed there. He tracks it with the handle controls of his power-operated turret. When the enemy plane fills the space between the lighted lines, it is time to fire...
...running high. Mountain waves made it impossible to see at periscope depth. As the day wore on, a 30-mile-an-hour wind whipped a writhing sea. Under these most difficult conditions, the enemy hove into sight - two capital ships at two miles' separation, a destroyer screening them. Vision blotted out, the Clyde had to be brought up until the periscope standards were awash. The heavy seas made her too lively. Tons of extra ballast had to be shipped to prevent her from breaking surface. The Clyde maneuvered, got around the destroyer, came "face to face" with...
...look and texture of the lovingly handmade article. It has also the quiet discretion that always distinguished Leslie Howard as an actor. He is well supported by Rosamund John and David Niven, who delicately suggest the subtle interdependencies which may develop between a mature woman, a man of vision and a man of action...