Word: focalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chosen to represent the modern painters, Picasso has long occupied the focal point of international art controversy because of his fondness for new and unconventional styles. Maillol, former student under Rodin, has done much to revive the classic traditions of sculptoring by his work in bronze and marble...
Before the Navy took over the Yard. the Union was for the Freshman Class, as a social center as well as a place for taking meals. Actually, it was the focal point of all Freshman activities, having two libraries, a billiard room, and a large common room...
Before the Navy took over the Yard, the Union was for the Freshman Class, as a social center as well as a place for taking meals. Actually, it was the focal point of all Freshman activities, having two libraries, a billiard room, and a large common room...
...hotel came to be a focal point for high society, for the world of letters and sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...
...vital question of the armed services and the colleges of the nation will be analyzed tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock by Lt. Col. Herber G. Espy of the Special Service Division, Services of Supply, War Department. Tomorrow, leading a discussion of focal areas in world affairs will be Lin Mousheng, author of "Men and Ideas" and editor of "Contemporary China," Anup Singh, author of "Nehru, the Rising Sun of India," and editor of "India Today," and lastly Capt. Sergei Kournakoff, author of "Russia's Fighting Forces...