Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from increased postal rates, of which $30,000,000 shall come from parcels post, $5,000,000 from second class mail, and the balance from third and fourth class. Farm organizations protested. Publishers who would be hit by the second class mail increase expressed irritation. Postmen lamented the vanished vision of the Edge raid. Mr. New was left to his honest troubles. One Congressional proposal was to increase parcels post rates by $80,000,000. As pointed out by Mr. New, this would probably put parcels post out of business. There are such things as express companies. Prominent business...
...However, his love of silence and "poor elocution" soon induced him to abandon that career. For many a year he lived and wrote in the ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Wandville, Normandy. Except for "an original look expressing his inner field of serene vision," he is in appearance a prosperous, healthy burgher of Ghent. Tall, thickset, he boxes, cycles, shoots, rows. He has been variously called "the Edison of the immaterial world" and "the Belgian Shakespeare...
...there any stylistic distortion or facts to account for the impression the book makes, any morbid autorial analysis such as the pseudo-psychological novelists affect, any "expressionism", that insane effect produced by filtering all impressions through the distorted vision of one character. The style is not in the least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective. The author records his chronicle of scenes and persons and action with an abundance of that sort of exact detail which makes "realism the only method for romance." If his style maybe said to ring with any prevailing tone, except the tone of accuracy...
...selection of Bishop Lawrence as chairman of the committee to raise the endowment fund for the Business School and the Divisions of Fine Arts and Chemistry is a happy one. The well-known eloquence, the qualities of leadership and vision of Bishop Lawrence constitute him, in every respect, a superlatively satisfactory choice...
...there any stylistic distortion of facts to account for the impression the book makes, any morbid autorial analysis such as the "expressionism", that insane effect produced by filtering all impressions through the distorted vision of one character. The style is not in the least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective...