Word: focalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasis on the danger to tutor- ial the Council said that the tutorial system was "a symbol, and at Harvard at least, the focal point, of a liberal education," the long-run social values of which should not be dismissed "as nonessentials and luxuries, to be dispensed with in an emergency...
...eight-page report was no all-inclusive summary of the detailed Departmental investigations, but it clearly pointed up the important issues. It could claim, too, to be representative of the student body as a whole when it called tutorial "the focal point of a liberal education," and when it warned that "in the mind of most undergraduates, Harvard would not be the same place without tutorial, in spite of its defects and its present state of flux." The same section fired a broadside at those who, to make room for immediate and useful technical training, would squeeze out the teaching...
...area within the Caribbean ring but of the Latin-American approaches beyond it, the approaches from Africa and Europe as well. That is why Army and Naval officers in the Canal Zone impatiently dismiss queries and quibbles about the Canal's local defenses. The Canal is still a focal point of the Caribbean defense system. But the Canal's defense today is just as good as and no better than the defenses of Trinidad, Puerto Rico and the other outlying U.S. bases...
American Student Defense League, Harvard Chapter, remains the name of the group, but "militant aid for Britain" will now be emphasized as the focal point of the new policy. The new organization will continue to cooperate with the Student Defenders of Democracy...
...minded citizen stands in the prop wash of many a muddled controversy. He realizes that the U. S. aircraft industry has grown in three years from a midget employing fewer than the knit underwear trade to the focal point of Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" which today holds Britain's life in the balance. But he is confused by fragments of ill-ordered, semi-secretive information and misinformation fired at him haphazardly by the press, labor, Government, business. Out of this confusion this week came an encyclopedic attempt to synthesize the whole problem: the all-aviation March issue...