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...threatens which paralyzes economic efforts in this world recovery. . . . Even economics may be willing to play a hand with deuces wild but it has not yet learned how to play when half the pack may be declared wild at any moment. . . . "If political forces must be guided by a vision of the unattainable, economic forces must be guided always by a vision of the attainable. The problem of reconciling the two is the most immediate and difficult in the world." An immediate result of the Young speech: political despatches from Washington printed under such headlines as: AMAZING TREND TO OWEN...
...soul of the score instead of merely the literal notes. ... It is the divine fire in him which elevates all he expresses through tone, so that one knows that at that moment music is being created which through its vitality, rich color, plastic form, pulsating rhythm brings us a vision of the beauty and power of which this life is capable, when that vision is brought to us by such a master...
With his gift Mr. Hurley made a re quest: that the six study-halls in the pro posed collegiate Gothic building be named for "distinguished American industrial leaders of international vision;" that an oil painting of each be hung to remind the students of "his boyhood struggles, phenomenal success and subsequent leader ship." The six: President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel; Builder Ernest Robert Graham of Chicago (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White); Samuel Insull; Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank; Chair man John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; President Gerard Swope of General Electric...
...engaged in science are not able to gather together the loose ends of scientific data into logical and significant theory. The majority of scientists have no very far sighted vision of a broader, more embracing field than their own limited specialty. It requires far more than average intellect to comprehend the complexities of natural phenomena and to be able to build up the scattered fragments of knowledge into a coherent structure. Such capacities of thought were necessary in transiting the obscure and difficult geologic evidence of the age of the earth into terms of millions of years. The figure arrived...
Contact Glasses have two applications in ophthalmology; first, in the correction of defects of vision and, second, in examinations of the eye wherein they permit the physician to obtain a view of certain portions of the interior of the living eye-ball which could not otherwise be seen. In the first application they have been used almost exclusively to give useful vision to persons suffering from conical cornea, a disorder in which the front of the eye-ball takes the form of a cone. Such a defect renders the patient's vision practically useless and the trouble...