Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defend these islands. I propose to defend them." Having defended them to the utmost, he spoke in candor and earnestness when he now proposed to relieve them. On his way southward he spoke incessantly of retaking the Philippines. If it was an obsession-perhaps a little out of focus with his new and larger task in Australia-it was natural for a man who had been through what he had in 94 days of fierce fighting and brilliant resistance...
...course of the telling, Miss Godden gets in some beautiful local color and some sharp child psychologizing. She shows a sensitivity to moods that is almost reminiscent of Virginia Woolf. But there is so much mystification, soft-focus symbolism and feminine theatricality that an almost fine novel becomes too dreamlike and sinister for words. Extreme sensitiveness breeds a type of melodrama, even...
...clearly photograph 500 times as much sky as the small area (1° in diameter) now recorded by ordinary reflector telescopes, yet it requires an exposure only one-tenth as long as the fastest astronomical lenses previously used. Equally valuable in aerial photography for its speed and wide, clear focus, the camera is being adopted by the U.S. Army...
Though astronomers still gaze at the stars, most telescopes are now in effect cameras. Essential part is a concave spherical mirror which gathers starlight, focuses it on a photographic plate. But mirrors hitherto could focus light from but a small section of sky on the plate without fuzzing and distortion. In the Schmidt camera, however, the light rays pass through a concave-convex lens which aims them at the mirror at such angles that they are reflected upon the plate in sharp focus (see diagram). Photographs of distant, dim nebulae formerly required exposures of 50 hours-five hours a night...
General Wavell's naval commander will be Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. A good choice, certainly. The focus of all operations in the southwest Pacific is a British naval base, Singapore, but the greatest actual and potential naval power in the Pacific is U.S. power. And even the British are willing to admit that Tommy Hart is a progressive chap. His American colleagues think he is more than that; they think he is as tough of mind as he is wiry of body, that he is aggressive, independent, wide-awake (TIME...