Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every household. Her every gurgled word, new tooth, prank or bright saying was reported and syndicated to the farthest outposts. Did Lilibet have a new camera? The press promptly drooled: "She has already taken some quite creditable photos since she mastered the art of getting her subjects into focus...
Although the second half of this fat book is about Henry A. Wallace, neither "the force" nor the man is brought into focus. Lord can record the official acts and pronouncements of Editor (Wallaces' Farmer, New Republic), Agriculture Secretary. Commerce Secretary and Vice President Wallace, but the man himself eludes him. Wallace, to Lord, "is my kind of guy." but readers will look in vain for something of Wallace's personal life, his tastes and habits. Nor does Lord document, though he tries to support, Fiorello LaGuardia's estimate of Wallace as "just a humble little...
...joint meeting early next week of members from the University-wide Committee on Discrimination and the Cambridge Civic Unity League became a definite possibility yesterday, as preliminary steps to focus the attention of the two groups on the Club 100 were taken by the Committee...
...absence of any thorough House tutorial plan, Freshmen on the hunt for the ideal domicile naturally focus much of their attention on the social facilities of the Houses. The constant center of House social life, both day-in-day-out and Saturday night, is the dining hall, and when it comes to food and decor, the Yardling will find a considerable variety from which to choose. When it comes to matters of overall policy, however, such as limits on interhouse privileges and the admission of women, he will find the same restrictions seven times over...
...focus of the current world crisis was the Near East (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A typical Russian propaganda picture recently pointed up Soviet preoccupation with that region. Obviously designed to please the strategically scattered Moslem millions, it showed faithful Mohammedans bent in prayer at a Moscow mosque. Soviet iconography included another striking symbol of the strange alliance and devious devotions of which Soviet policy is capable: a rug from Ashkhabad (capital of the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic), into which was woven the likeness of the late Prophet Karl Marx...