Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Putting in sharp focus the great changes that war has wrought on Harvard, the newly released figures on the civilian enrolment for the University's 308th year reveal a drop to less than 25 per cent of the usual north. On the other hand, however, there has been the development of the huge trained-manpower factory of over a dozen Army and Navy schools with 6000 men, bringing the number of students back to almost the 8000 of peacetime years...
...image over a greater number of visual cells. In this dimple, common to the vertebrates with the highest acuity (some birds have two in each eye), there are no rod cells. The cones are slim and tight-packed. The other common denominator is the mechanism for accommodation-ability to focus the eye, maintain a sharp image of a moving object...
Action started at the southeast end of the line and moved along its length, like the stress of a whiplash. The veteran Eighth moved first, against a focus of mean terrain at Takrouna (see col. 2), then settled down to a hill-by-hill struggle. Then the First Army moved forward gradually onto hills on the edge of the plain of Tunis and then onto the plain itself (see p. 26). Later still, units of the U.S. II Corps suddenly showed up at the northern flank, after a remarkable forced march, and began an inching progress like the Eighth...
...used it to complete regular work purposely neglected in anticipation of the pre-exam 'breather'. More serious than this is the tendency for reading period assignments to be marred by disorganization and sterility--Already lacking the correlation and guidance afforded by faculty instruction, the reading period had failed often focus attention upon particular and specific aspects of the subject, has left courses hanging in the aid and left the undergraduate with a sense of intellectual frustration. Instead of synthesis and summation, the reading period in many cases has been utilized merely to conclude as course...
...decade that followed, the whole focus and direction of the Presidency, and of U.S. life, had been changed. No future President would be able to devote almost all his inaugural speech to domestic affairs. Franklin Roosevelt, too, had changed. There was to be no celebration as he began his eleventh year in the White House. The President had just recovered from a slight intestinal upset; all he wanted to do was to get back to the routine of being President...