Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First he tried to put photographic film into an eye near the center of the retina, the point where the lens brings the image naturally to a focus. This did not work; eye fluids ruined the film. So he cut a small hole in the rear of the eyeball and placed in it a disk of film about as big as a pea. When an object was held six inches away, the lens of the eye brought its image to a focus on the film. The aperture of this "camera," he figured, was somewhere between fI.9...
...East Side New York apartments, generally furnished with a few gilt chairs and remnants of the splendors of 19A Edith Grove, she once again became a famous hostess. By 1929, when she published Music at Midnight, a lively memoir of her European triumphs, Muriel's parties were a focus for visiting artistic lions and earnest contributors to the little magazines. Muriel helped to keep excitement alive by outrageous remarks and outrageous hats...
...vocation, his job. Good wages are important because good pay gives a steelworker standing, dignity and significance in his community. But to Murray, a good union is important for more things than getting pay raises. In this age of vast mechanization, the union gives a man social focus and purpose which he will rarely find simply by being a good citizen of a modern city or town...
...meet in the renovated nine-room Tutorial House at 16 Appian way. Whether junior groups will be co-ed is still uncertain. Harvard opinion seems to side with Daniel S. Cheever '39, assistant professor of Government, who said recently, "the purpose of the plan is to have it focus on the Houses and they aren...
...post-war year Conant has crusaded for a more logical method of making scientific decisions in a democracy--"one of my lost causes"--and a stronger public school system. The principle focus for his scrutiny has been, however what he calls "the mess we are making of our draft." The present system of deferments he feels, is both inefficient and undemocratic. It should be replaced by a plan of Universal Military Service under which all men would serve a regular term in the army automatically on leaving high school. In advocating this he has been attached by the far right...