Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus powerful ultrasound beams from four separate irradiators onto a target about the size of a pinhead...
...dentist's chair, and talked occasionally, Dr. Meyers gave the 'signal and a technician pressed a button. Ultrasound, at a frequency of 980,000 cycles per second, shot through intervening brain tissues but not in sufficient intensity to damage them. The four beams came to a sharp focus at the exact part of the ansa lenticularis on the left side (controlling right-side movements) that Dr. Meyers wanted to destroy. The ultrasound dose lasted only 1.8 seconds. The patient was moved twice, a minute fraction of an inch, so that two more pinhead-size parts of the ansa...
...first time in broadcasting history, all three networks pooled their talent on NBC's Wide Wide World last week to help TV celebrate its first decade. The result was a kind of family photograph album-a little faded, and brown with nostalgia. There was more fun than focus as The Fabulous Infant paraded 90 minutes of TV's past. The laconic Frank Costello grumbled again to the Kefauver committee: "Under no condition will I testify until I'm well enough," and Ed Wynn goggled on-screen to explain why his girl is so fastidious: "Her father...
Narrowing the focus still further, Economist Dexter M. Keezer, director of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Economic Department, predicted that house building, down this year, will rise 10% to a total $16 billion in 1958, balancing in part a 7% decline (to $34.5 billion) in plant expansion. And by 1960-"perhaps before," added Keezer-"investment in new plant and equipment will be heading for another record...
...their approval, as is to be expected, it is hoped that the United States will adopt and pursue the policy with an active and optimistic, rather than a reticent attitude. The hopes and opinions of Western Europe, as well as those of the rest of the free world, will focus sharply on the happenings in Paris next month...