Word: visioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maze of life, however, the conditions are much more insidious. The alternatives are by no means always a rugged but righteous road that winds upward, and a pleasant way leading surely to ultimate perdition. Often the paths do not seem very different, or to diverge much; and a clear vision is required to see whiter they tend Nor does a choice settle the destination, for there are by ways to return to the true road, arduous, no doubt, but passable...
...purpose I have sketched an extreme and sombre picture of trifling with that eye that started single; but in lesser degree every man must guard his vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former...
There, with the broad economic vision of Percy A. Rockefeller, George Fisher Baker and John D. Ryan,* trustees of Consolidated Gas waited. Their company is the second largest public utility in the country. Only American Telephone & Telegraph surpasses it. It owns all of the capital stock of the New York Edison Co., one of the two largest electric operating units in the U. S. With its dozen main subsidiaries it supplies the 5,000,000 people of New York City, boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, and a large section of adjoining Westchester County with practically all their...
...fact that his father and mother were married there and a record showing the birth of his elder brother, David, at Rehoboth, Mass. . . . Thorp died without issue and outlived his wife. . . . He had left no evidence of having been distinguished by any quality excepting great mechanical skill and vision." Bound to this sadly thin genealogy was a picture. The New York Journal of Commerce reproduced that picture and under it printed...
Modern education has devised expedients which give free rein in a large latitude to the individual fancy. The sense of community of interest among many working in several fields for a common aim favors breadth and vision...