Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jerusalem has always been the town of miracles, a place where the beating of invisible wings can still be heard, sometimes, in the warm air. It is the town, also, from which the apostles departed upon their dazzling, dangerous journeys. No more suitable point of focus could have been discovered for those who are engaged in spreading God's word. This fact especially is satisfying to Chairman Mott, a man whose energetic character resembles some laboratory apparatus of light and sensitive leaves, trembling with the great force an exterior electricity has communicated to them. On the night...
...turn their backs on every attempt on the part of authorities to make intellectual pastures a delectable paradise for students. "The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" seems to apply here. Educators might hesitate to recognize the obvious need for separation, but soon they may have to focus their attention upon this situation. As long as steps like the Reading Period are taken, so long will the breach widen. The autimonies are clearly outlined. In the end, it is either the Tutorial System, the Reading Period, the degree with Honors on one side, or on the other lectures...
...tutorial system, in the Department of History, Government and Economics, takes precedence over the experiment of the Departments of Geology and Biology. The eyes of all to whom the tutorial system is important, and particularly of the faculty heads of the Departments of Physics and Chemistry, will focus on those Freshmen who this month elect geology or biology as their field of concentration...
Prime Minister Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha attained the focus of interest when he recently submitted to party leaders the draft treaty which he negotiated in London, during King Fuad's visit there (TIME, July...
...state caused Premier Raymond Nicholas Landry Poincaré to speed, last week, from Paris to Strasbourg. Though the city is chiefly famed for producing pâtés de foie gras and as the place where La Marseillaise was composed, Strasbourg loomed last week exclusively as the political focus of Alsace-Lorraine...