Word: focused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matisse) timid sketch from a model. Every subsequent stage looks as complete as the final one, though not even the last version seems "finished"-a Matisse seldom does. In spite of the drastic changes Matisse made as he went along, every version brought his original conception more boldly into focus. His admirers might have accepted any of the early versions as a masterpiece, but not Matisse himself...
...obtains the impression," said Dr. Herrick, "that ultrasonics is a dangerous agent. However . . . what is harmful in large doses may be of great therapeutic and diagnostic value in smaller, appropriate doses." Dr. Herrick reported that the waves can be brought to a sharp focus, "permitting the heating of small, deeply seated areas without serious injury to the intervening tissues...
...Lovey, stuffed with the excellent cookery of Pussy. And, by the time Brewsie and Willie appeared in 1946 (Gertrude Stein died with a copy of it clutched in each hand), the name of Stein had ceased to be merely an object of intellectual bickering and changed into a focus of highly popular emotion. Money flowed in from publishers, visitors flowed in from everywhere...
...third heartening factor in the week's news was the continued success of the air lift to Berlin, which showed, in small focus but enormous perspective, the military might of the West...
Already Bernadotte had achieved a sensational success. If he settled the Palestine war, U.N., under U.S.-British leadership, would again become the focus of hope...