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Neville Chamberlain: "He holds that the working-classes of the country are responsive to the imperial sentiment. The imperial relationship, he will tell you, is as real to the poor man as to the rich. The poor man may not have the same exalted vision of the imperial destiny as the educated and the traveled man, but he does feel in his blood that the British Empire is something to be proud of. . . . He is a social reformer. He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist. He believes that every...
...plan of cloistering the Harvard Yard with a fringe of low buildings must pale into insignificance beside the gigantic vision of the new building for the University of Pittsburgh, 680 feet of towering steel and stone will make that university the highest seat of learning in the country. It will be one story higher than the Woolworth building, two higher than the Metropolitan Tower, and sixteen powerful elevators will whisk students from class to class...
With a pessimism natural in disappointment those who had vision of a glorious efflorescence of genius fear the bloodless dominion of my evalism. It is thought that literature and the arts cannot endure the blight of a new are of Babbitts But paradox as it is, the post-war idealists are almost too practical for practical purposes. If they would embody their ideals at once into institutions, they would take away the incentive needed for further progress. Given a vision plus an obstacle hindering its attainment, one has the true settings which makes for intellectual advancement...
...sighted about 7:50 in the morning; commuters on the ferryboats cheered loudly; and, as the ZR-3 sailed over Manhattan to the Bronx and back, hundreds of thousands of busy New Yorkers forgot office and factory and stared skyward until their necks ached. By a curious trick of vision, explainable by the ship's tremendous length, the ZR-3 at one time seemed to graze the very top of the Woolworth Building, though in reality it hung never less than 3,000 feet above the city...
Courage and capital and vision are alone essential to the establishment of a series of transoceanic dirigible lines with which no steamship companies could compete...