Word: visioning
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...inestimable as greatly to outweigh the loss of one individual life--and in this lies the explanation of their immortality. Where there is no legacy of knowledge, and no possibility of it, the deliberate death of a scientist becomes little more than pointless suicide--magnificent, but futile and without vision...
...will increase, unless her population growth comes to a standstill; while Canada Australia, Argentina and other grain producing countries, like the U. S. are gradually growing up to hav smaller and smaller export surpluses The effect of this cannot be immediate, but it is well within the range of vision; and as it comes about, the work of the present Conference will grow less and less important...
...them. Soon he controlled a huge combination ? De Beers Mining Co., British South Africa Co. and Gold Fields of South Africa Co. He became Prime Minister of the Cape Town Colony, which he governed as a benevolent despot, even strengthening the British grip on lower Africa with a vision in his head of "Africa British, from Cape Town to Cairo...
...took a commission as major in the U. S. flying corps. He befriended many charitable organizations and churches, presented the Chapel of St. Saviour to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In all that he did there was a quality of canny vision, of testy self-will. His astuteness was reflected in his arrogant, slightly clouded, Mongolian eyes; his hunger for life in his red and heavy lips which, in later life, he concealed with a mustache...
...harbor, was the mansion known as Los Xicales, where the descendant of one who came with Cortez had lived to his end in faith, poverty and style. Sard Harker, sailor, lay on the barque Venturer in Las Palomas harbor, dreaming of a girl he loved. In his dream, the vision of that proud and now empty house stood up clear and portentious, while a voice rang in his ears : "You will meet her again in that house for the second of three times. It will be very, very important, so be ready." Ten years after his dream, he found himself...