Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This news brought into sharp focus the fact that Adolf Hitler, soon after his Berlin-Moscow Deal (TIME, Aug. 28, 1939), obtained a reversal by Joseph Stalin of the policy of the British Communist Party. Out as secretary of the British Communist Party went Harry Pollitt, who up to the day Moscow's orders were received had been urging British workers and Communists to help win the war. "The Communist Party supports the war, believing it to be a just war," had been Secretary Pollitt's policy. On the orders of Stalin, Pollitt made a complete recantation, swore...
...most French pictures at least the photography is beautiful. Here a high school movie puts it to shame: there are spots all over the screen, lighting effects are crudely overdone, and the focus is so often artily fuzzy that you squint, swear, and come out with sore eyes...
...Then when Italy invaded Egypt, extreme Wafdists accused him of forgetting his words of last August: "Egypt will declare war if her territory or her Army is the object of an attack." Never overly popular except with the King, Sabry Pasha by last week was the focus of some pretty strong hates...
Professor Taylor replied by pointing out that "political campaigns have often failed to focus the vote on what later became clear as the underlying issue; the campaigns of 1860 and 1916 are examples in point, and on the editor's criteria we have abandoned the democratic process long...
...members of the faculty would deny that a comprehensive paper, carefully done, is invaluable as a means of bringing a subject into clear focus. It also supplies experience in research and organization night of yawning over Widener tomes. In many courses, papers might well be substituted for hour exams, which are at best an unsatisfactory method of testing a student's knowledge. Not infrequently these mid-semester quizzes cover such a broad range of material that a student can get a better mark merely by reading over his lecture notes than by outlining the assigned reading. In other subjects...