Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department had given the go-ahead just five days earlier. Almost impersonally he began: "This Congress is going to be judged by what we do today, as to whether we have preserved our trust-as to what we do to protect America today. We should vote with vision and courage. If we lose this war, we do not retain our country, the country we all love...
Granting General and Mrs. Hoge so much vision and foresight reminds us all of Joan of Arc's dream before her departure for Chinon. We believe that it is undue, and feel sure that even the General will not like it, as he must be aware that a Fairbanks resident, Donald MacDonald Sr., has worked the project over in every shape and form for 13 years, thus acquiring the flattering title of "Father of the International Highway...
...accept Mr. Wallace's vision of 'the century of the common man' in even so modest a degree as is implied in the establishment of complete equality, of educational opportunity, of the career open to talent, of easy promotion in all walks of life from the ranks to positions of command? Victory depends on our offering the martyred nations of Europe a' cause for which to fight and die. Are we still too besotted by our terror of revolution to speak plainly the words that would convince the peoples and not merely the Governments that...
...longtime student of night vision, Professor Miles explained that the retina of the eye has two kinds of vision cells cones and rods. The cones (about 7,000,000), concentrated in the retina's center, are used mainly for day vision. The rods' (130,000,000), distributed around the edges, are used for seeing in the dark...
...cones ... by means of a chemical process, become ten times as sensitive. This is as far as they can go. But . . . the rods get more and more sensitive for 20 or 25 minutes after the cones have stopped adjusting, finally [increase their sensitivity] 1,000 times. This is night vision...