Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Versailles peacemakers to give any thought to post-war education. Dr. Schairer also thought he knew a remedy for Europe's ills: the highly successful Danish educational system and economy. Feature of this system was Denmark's Folk Schools, which taught Danish peasants breadth of vision, thus making them better democrats, by means of poetry, history, religion. From the Folk School movement sprang agricultural schools, cooperatives, a new system of dairy (instead of grain) farming and decentralized industry, which had made Denmark one of the most prosperous nations in Europe...
...assume that Hitlerism cannot be permanently defeated on the field of battle alone, but only in the hearts and minds of men, and especially of youth. ... To develop, men need action; to act, men need faith; to keep faith, men need reason; to direct all three, men need a vision of excellence...
...Monday morning the President telephoned Cordell Hull, ill in his hotel suite. He called in Sumner Welles. To Under Secretary Welles he gave the task of drafting a statement that would make clear to the U.S. the implications of Hitler's move: the magnitude of Hitler's vision of his world, the scope of his dreams of conquest, the threat to the U.S. proved even by the German attack on Russia...
...past month, Drs. Harry Reginald DeSilva of Yale and Walter Richard Miles of the National Research Council have tested over 4,000 men for Army truck-driving jobs. After noticing that the Negroes seemed to have a keener night vision, Dr. Miles picked at random seven white and eight Negro soldiers, lined them up in a field on a dark night. Then he walked to a point 100 feet away, held up a stick with a square of white cardboard on each end. The soldiers were asked whether the stick was horizontal or vertical...
...When a member of the audience told Dr. Douglas Armour Thorn of Boston that in the U.S. "idle young people . . . exhaust nervous energies in the Boy Scouts and Y.M.C.A.," Dr. Thorn replied cryptically: "The American people have succumbed to a fatuous dependence on the cheerleader. . . . Our leaders lack the vision given to leaders in the totalitarian states which enables them to appreciate the vast magnitude of these [psychiatric] problems...