Word: visioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sebastian Spering Kresge does not sell eyeglasses. He used to sell them to thrifty persons who, consulting neither oculist nor optician, sought to remedy faulty vision with selections from Kresge counters. Last week, however, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that an S. S. Kresge store in Boston, in selling eyeglasses, was "invading a field rightly sequestered ... to those possessing special training in a specified department of treatment of human ills...
...seems that once in the dim and distant past there lived a sage named Hesiodus, who, reflecting upon the vagaries of human nature, exclaimed: "The HALF is MORE than the WHOLE." If he was not thinking of Adam before Eve was born, he undoubtedly had in mind, with prophetic vision, the advent of TIME...
...lower classes. Numerous physical defects which would interfere with their progress in their professional work were discovered and in most instances corrected. Eye defects were found to be quite common. The correction of visual defects occurring in our students is of great importance in so exacting a requirement on vision as dentistry. An effort is being made to study the effect on scholarship of the correction of these physical defects...
...plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch up with the Lindenthal vision, patient Mr. Lindenthal put a definite location (West 57th , Street) to his bridge, drew plans, estimated expenditures. But the City Fathers had other ideas, and when at last a Hudson River bridge was actually begun, it was the now-building structure from 178th Street to Fort Lee. Ironic, to Mr. Lindenthal...
...London fog, Ann and Patrick recognize that their life-long friendship is love, the real thing. Lest they shatter the life of Ann's gentle husband, Peregrine, Patrick escapes to the Midlands there to conduct relief among striking miners-and seduce their handsomest daughter, Martha. In a feverish vision Ann realizes what has happened, pines for Patrick. The horse-faced woman snaps at the situation, meat for malicious machinations, invites Patrick and Ann arid Martha to her Mediterranean castle. For seven days the mistral blows them all madly sane. Martha pitches herself over a cliff into a raging forest...