Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University backing for the Marshall Plan will focus at Adams House tonight when 100 student and faculty leaders line up behind ERP in response to a letter sent out over the weekend by four deans, three professors and eight student leaders...
...Focus. In Detroit, Douglas C. Giles, working as a civilian photographer's assistant, told the FBI that he had deserted the Army because of "the utter monotony of. . . working with cameras day after...
Below him will lie the great mirror, like a pool of still black water dimly sprinkled with stars. Around him will flow the starlight, down to the mirror and up to the "prime focus" of the telescope (see drawing), a rectangular hole in a tablelike structure in front...
...Tender Years (20th Century-Fox) is a tearjerker about a mid-19th Century dog. The dog has to fight professionally to earn his master's keep, although he would prefer to live peacefully with a little boy. The picture attains a focus of unusual moral and dramatic interest when a minister (Joe E. Brown) steals the dog and faces trial and jail rather than return him. But everything is comfortably fixed up before this conflict between legality and sentiment can seriously excite or embarrass the audience. Except for some ugly moments around the dog pit, and the irreducibly likable...
Once, ten years ago, the harsh outlines of reality had begun to focus in Nijinsky's blurred mind. He was allowed to leave his secluded asylum in Switzerland, lived privately for a time in his wife's native Hungary. He had begun to recognize friends. Then came war, and the sound of bombs sent him cowering back into his world of shadow. The Russians found him in Hungary, put him up in the best hotel in Vienna, gave him a box at the ballet. The Russians assured Romola that Nijinsky would be welcomed in Russia as a hero...