Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mystery. Mayhap he went to sleep on the set and woke to find himself in the film. Another point which has never seamed quite plain to us is just why so many people think that Turpin is screamingly funny because the poor man has trouble with the focus of his eyes. It has always seemed to us that he managed to entertain in spite of this misfortune...
...Princeton this week-end a national conference of college undergraduates will attempt to focus student opinion on the impending world court issue. Whatever its outcome, the experience probably will be a valuable one for the delegates themselves, and it is even conceivable that a certain force of intelligent thought may be brought to bear on Congress in its approaching decision of the question...
...game which could bring forth so noble a display of courage and indomitable spirit. At the same time, there is a well-founded opinion at Harvard that football has become overemphasized in American colleges, so much so that the entire scheme of American education is thrown out of focus; and that the game itself is suffering from this unhealthy condition...
Spread out over an expanse of 65 acres, the somewhat scattered Exposition buildings have already been dubbed the "Wembly of the South Seas." A large domed Festival Hall, superficially resembling the U.S. Capitol at Washington, dominates a be-fountained lagoon, serves as a focus for the Expositional activities, and is expected to reverberate nightly to the syncopations of the noted Argyll and Sutherland jazz band, which New Zulanders boast of having lured from London at a cost ?5,000 greater than the total Dominion grant to the Exposition...
...comfortable Georgian spaciousness of her new winter home. Court gossips have it that she and the Duke found the suite of apartments at their disposal in Buckingham Palace "a bit awkward for entertaining" and White Lodge, "too far out of town." Curzon House is at the very focus of London's fashionable West End, and moreover near Chesterfield House, the town residence of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles...