Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slopes of Dartmouth's golf course at Woodstock, Vermont, and of neighboring Mount Etna were the athletic focus of the weekend, with slalom and cross country races on Friday, downhill and jumping on Saturday...
...hardly matters. What does matter is Novelist Aymeé's picture of provincial life. It is the prototype of a stock cliche of French humor, and has begun to yellow a bit with age. Although expertly composed and amusing in spots, it is trivial and slightly out of focus...
...light touch is the result of heavy work. He puts in more than ten hours a day (six days a week) to turn out six cartoons. He attends the daily morning Trib editorial conference, and though he rarely gets his subject there, the run-through helps him focus on the main news. After the 11 a.m. conference, he races to make his 4:30 p.m. deadline. Dowling always keeps his watch set an hour and a half fast. "Sometimes," says he, "I look at" my watch and it says 4 o'clock and I haven't got anything...
According to Britain's Nature, copying the principle used in the compound eyes of insects may get around this difficulty. Instead of having a single lens, as human eyes do, to focus an image on the retina, insect eyes have many fine tubes, each tipped with a small lens. Each lens views a small part of a wide field, and the light that enters the lenses follows the tubes and forms a mosaic image. Some of the tubes are curved, but the light follows them just the same...
Signs of Decay. A realization that this decision may come sooner than they expect, and that it may be unfavorable, underlay a great colonial debate that welled up among Britons last week. The focus of debate was the British protectorate of Uganda, but the real context was wider. From Cape Town to Suez, the fabric of empire is visibly disintegrating. In the north, the vast Sudan fortnight ago turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there...