Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world politics, which the U.S. would now have to play to the hilt, would not be easy. Peace had merely sharpened the questions which had lain dormant in the smoke of battle. The political problems of the Far East, thrown into focus by internal strife in China (see FOREIGN NEWS), suddenly seemed to rear higher than the old problems of Europe. But Europe's woes were still there, too, stirred by hunger and unrest...
...While the focus of the study is the problem of Harvard College, the Committee never lost sight of the fact that college education at Harvard is an integral part of college education in the United States, and this in turn is an integral part of American education from the kindergarten to the Ph.D. and the professional colleges. It would have been impossible to cover this vast field comprehensively. But the evidence of the text shows that its authors possessed collectively so wide a range of knowledge that they have been able to dip into the vast reservoir of educational experience...
...whimsical Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, the Rev. Laurence Sterne became one of the greatest professional charmers in English letters. The consumptive parson himself was more interesting than charming. So violently attracted to women that he could hardly focus his emotions on any one of them, he clothed his writing in delicate salacity, his love-making in delicate sentiment. Mr. Quennell sums up A Sentimental Journey as "a textbook on feeling"; but its author eludes...
...wife left home. She was gone for months. But she finally came back, and one night last week she and Imogene went out together. Charlie met them at Amend's Tavern and they all went back to Imogene's, where they had a heated argument. Focus of the argument: Charlie. Wrathfully Betty Milton jabbed an ice pick through Imogene's screen door. Imogene, just as wrathful, rushed out and hurled a beer glass through one of the Miltons' windows...
...COLLEGE in which most other extracurricular organizations will be dead, the redbrick building on the one-way cow-path, 14 Plympton Street, will continue to be a focus of undergraduate life. The punch-bowl will seldom over-run this summer, but typewriters will still pound on yellow copy-paper the news of the University...