Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does it deserve to continue because of its contributions to our way of life, but it has a job to do now. And I can visualize an even greater use of the technique when peace comes and a vast surplus of men, materials and productive capacity calls for the vision and leadership to translate these resources from production for war to production for peace. When that time comes it is my judgment that if we are intelligent and resourceful, new and vast horizons will open for us all. Our job now is to hasten that...
...imperialistic note in the rantings of such violent interventionists. When Vag thought back, so few on either side of the war vs. neutrality debate had ever thought on other than selfish grounds. Both sides had kept thinking of America first with humanity last. And the few men with real vision and world-wide sympathies--Vag though that the weary, defeated President had been such a man--those fellows, by forgetting all else in the fight for victory, had finally won military success only to have the making of the peace taken from their hands. In preparing public opinion...
...been placed on the tomb of the newer Unknown Soldier. The bugler was sounding taps as Vag, shivering a bit from the damp which had penetrated his light reversible, left the enlarged Arlington National Cemetery. Outside it all seemed so unreal--Vag wondered if he had had a vision of the future or a nightmare of the past...
...good physical condition." And "good physical condition" meant perfect or near-perfect eyesight--a qualification which a number of students, after a year or so of peering at various and sundry textbooks, can no longer boast about. That meant that the undergraduate without the required 20-20 vision, qualified though he might be in ability, training, and in enthusiasm and eagerness to serve, was left out in the cold. For a pilot, a bombardier, or a deck officer the regulation seemed thoroughly justified; for a number of other jobs, it seemed disconcertingly foolish...
...Amid the faint rumble of trolley cars that reached the 70-acre campus, Fordham's President Robert Ignatius Gannon faced his distinguished assemblage and exclaimed happily: "John Hughes [Fordham's founder, later New York's first Catholic archbishop] would have cried: 'This is Europe! . . . Our vision is looking back, not forward. This is the Paris of the 13th Century...