Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the Conference was to bring young minds together to diagnose and prescribe for the ills of the world. It was reported that, "carried on the wings of song and prayer and undimmed idealism, they sought to bring close the poet's vision of the brotherhood of man, the federation of the world...
Only a slight play of the fancy can now create a new vision of the sailor's leisure. The bunks, rising shelf on shelf, each own its feeble light, and its prostrate Conrad with open book. Thus is the tedium of the long "road to Mandalay" bridged for the men who know the starkness of Kipling's and Stevenson's enchanted seas. And Pegasus unchained is a new lure to the "sober men and true attentive to our duty". The romance of the picture cannot be denied...
...fully acquainted with the Bible. There may be other things that are more important in his preparation for future success. But such a requirement, if it were carried through every department, could not fail to aid in that rounding out and broadening which is essential to every man of vision, no matter what his profession. People have been making fun of the Bible too long...
...restrictions is to allow people who wish to enter the Yard to draw up to the curb in front of the entrances and get out instead of blocking the traffic by stopping in the middle of the street. The new arrangement will also allow a better field of vision for those crossing from the Yard to the south side of Massachusetts Avenue...
...triumphant, and the World Court, formidably attractive. To be sure, the new light has not yet gilded politics, nor has the personnel of Congress yet admitted any degree of conversion to a new conception. But the crescent dawn reveals a surge, a wave, a recrudescence, of international vision and, it may be, of altruism. Certainly there is health in hope...