Word: focalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...focal point, Science selected eight prominent journals; measured the space they gave to a recent meeting in Philadelphia of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The eight sheets consumed 1,379% column-inches, of which the Boston Transcript took 347. Last stood the Philadelphia (where the meeting met) Evening Ledger with 74% column inches. The New York Times led Manhattan journals tabulated with 175% column inches; the World had 113%. Education and general science lumped led the subjects treated with 194%; astronomy stood second with...
...illumination causes dilation of the pupil to an abnormal degree and provides a coreal area which does not permit of focal accuracy and which tends to distortion of outline. To partially overcome this, segmental action of the ciliary muscle governing the focusing of the eye is induced. Such muscular action can only be attained by great effort...
...musical comedy ever assembled and seems to suffer only through an excess of talent. By the middle of the second act you actually become a little weary of seeing celebrities running on and off with brief lines and a song here and there. The show lacks unity and a focal interest. As a five-dollar vaudeville show, it is the very best. Miss Miller plays a circus girl who marries a man on shipboard because she has neglected the formality of obtaining a passport. She ' never sang better (which is not saying so much) and she never danced better (which...
Later Corporal John was made the focus of countless lenses. "Click," went expensive focal plane press shutters. "Clickety-whurr," purred Bell and Howell cinema cameras. The noted corporal "squads righted," "squads lefted," and "righted by squads...
...epidemic of smallpox that last month broke out in Philadelphia, appeared, last week, to have spread to Washington and, in less degree, to Baltimore. Negro quarters of these cities were focal areas for the infection. Mortality was between 11% and 35%, indicating a virulent strain of organism...