Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...home and abroad. And there is every reason to believe that, if elected, he will run the government on a business basis, because he is a trained and-experienced man of affairs; and that it will be in the interest of large ends, because he is a man of vision...
...year ago the whole world gloried at America's mighty achievements, her broad vision, her unselfish spirit. Today America stands alone, humiliated, dishonored, friendless. The treaty that has been ratified by every other belligerent, and is already in effect, is not acceptable to the United States Senate, even though it be accompanied by the most sweeping of reservations...
...chosen this year to represent American universities, as holders of the Rhodes scholarships should take to Oxford with them qualities which few have possessed in the past. Cecil Rhodes was a man of action and of vision and the spirit which led him to the Dark Continent and which enabled him to create the British Empire in Africa is the spirit which he would have liked to see embodied in those who should hold his scholarships at Oxford...
...world. The criticism of college and college men has often been that they form a community apart, sufficient unto itself; that they hold themselves aloof from problems of the day and only concern themselves with these theoretically and rather superficially. Hence the college graduate has not always the broad vision and understanding that might be expected...
Proposition 1 is essentially the view of those who put President Wilson's personal pride before the welfare of the country and the world. Proposition 3 summarizes, in the same way, the narrow political vision of Senator Lodge and his associates. Proposition 2, if adopted, would mean that the United States with draws from the Society of nations and throws away all chance of paying dividends on the capital in men and ideals she invested...