Word: visioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down across the Mason Dixon Line. Many people did not realize what Mr. Gannett was up to, by heading a syndicate to buy the Twin City Sentinel, biggest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. But those who did realize, said: "Well, that just shows you Frank Gannett's vision. He may operate in the Finger Lakes but not by rule of thumb...
...alone kept silent. There was not much to say about technique, for over all the able and even powerful work of Mr. Inness Jr. is the shadow of the man who signed his pictures "Inness." "My first memory of my father," George Inness Jr. used to say, "is the vision of him painting a washtub. . . ." There was in that statement perhaps more vision than memory, for Artist Inness spent little time adorning laundry utensils. Even the stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful...
Engineer Howard R. Armstrong is a man of vision, but hardly a visionary. He has flown in airplanes for over 20 years. He has ascended professionally to the head of the mechanical experimental division of the vast E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. of Wilmington Del. When he talked last week of a plan that has been in his head for 20 years, he got a respectful hearing from Army and Navy officials, the press and his fellow scientists...
...houseboat rode majestically on the head waters of the Amazon. On the deck stood a missionary, his wife, and their little South American Indian princess. On the tropic shore, all the little Incas went "Inck, inck, inck," danced with joy to see the long-awaited galleon. Some such vision swam before the eyes of Reverend and Mrs. F. A. Stahl when announcement was made last week at a Seventh Day Adventist camp near Worcester, Mass., that they had been presented with a houseboat by Mrs. Heber Herbert Votaw, wife of a superintendent of federal prisons, sister of the late President...
...veins ran the purest blood of our forefathers, surcharged with the bracing airs of the new world. His courage was that of the American jaguar and of the dauntless globe-circling conquistadors. For integrity he was another Gibraltar, for vision a sun-regarding eagle, for aspiration a Napoleon, a Caesar. . . . Generous, high-minded, inflexible of will and purpose. . . . The century's, yes, all the centuries' hero...