Word: visioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover shows his vision by recognizing that it is prevention rather than cure of unemployment that is needed, and that definite plans, based on fact, must be laid far in advance for dealing with this problem. Obviously, if unemployment is to be dealt with constructively, it is necessary to have some measurement of its extent. At the present time, however, there are practically no dependable statistics collected in the United States on unemployment. In the winter of 1927, for example, extensive discussion took place in Congress and elsewhere regarding the current unemployment, but to this day no one knows even...
That memorable morn When Key saw our flag was still there! The song of his vision was never too hard For our fathers to sing in the past...
...assistant in a cheap restaurant through the cities, factories, and harvest fields of a large section of America. His bitterness in his futile early search for Abraham Lincoln and his contempt for the type of American he does find give way finally to a rational appreciation and clear vision of America...
...trunk of today might mucH resemble the trunk of yesterday were it not for Innovation Trunk Co. and Innovator Seymour W. Bonsall. In 1897 Mr. Bonsall was a Manhattan stock broker, but interested in inventions as well as in the market. To him, in a dream, came the vision of a trunk which should be a portable closet rather than a travelling chest of drawers. Awakening, Mr. Bonsall remembered his dream, built the first wardrobe trunk. It looked much like the old style bulbous trunks, but in its interior were racks for hangers, thus embodying the essential principle...
Critics usually fall foul of the Rhodes Scholars for their failure to approximate the vision of Rhodes Scholars which exists in the minds of their critics. Much obviously unfair criticism has been directed against the Rhodes Scholars for their failure thus for to lead the world, or at least the English-speaking world. To destructive critics who take this position, one would like to suggest that it is just as fair to condemn education in general because educated men recently made such a mess of guiding the world in the ways of peace and civilization. The Rhodes Scholars have...