Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most motor statistics for 1936 have been thrown out of focus with 1935 by the fact that the automotive year is almost six months gone, the season having started last November instead of in January. But the distortion in GM's sales tended toward understatement rather than overstatement, since GM prospects have already had two months more in which to buy their GM cars than they had last year at this time...
...government payroll, are using Uncle Sam's capitalistic cash to whip together a "red" machine. Yet however true these charges may be they fail to consider that the "reds" are striking not for a bloody revolution, but rather for a fair deal from their American administrators. The strikes should focus attention on the misrule of the officials as well as the vices of the workers up in arms...
While the activities of Lawrence are the principal focus of the volume. Edmonds has deliberately tern aside the veils of romance which have made his subject an almost legendary character by fitting them into the whole pattern of contemporary events. But this is not a part of the general fad of debunking history for in his true surroundings and with an understanding of his natural abilities and human faults, we cannot fall to appreciate more fully the work of this soldier who was also a mechanical genius and brilliant archaeologist...
...Farnsworth sender the image falls on a photosensitive cathode surface without dots. Electrons knocked out of the cathode by the light image in random directions are brought to a focus by a stationary magnetic field. This "electronic image" corresponds to the light image. By means of oscillating magnetic fields, the entire electronic image is moved back & forth 7,200 times a second in front of an aperture. The number of electrons escaping through the aperture constitutes a varying electric current, which, amplified and transmitted, controls the "oscillight" in the receiving set where the images are conversely reproduced...
...Majesty was nightly the focus of gay revels, and on the morning of King George's funeral was in such condition that a masseur named Stoebs was hastily summoned from a fashionable West End Turkish bath. He worked over King Carol and produced some results but it was considered necessary to continue the massage in the royal limousine as it sped to Westminster Hall. In ensuing confusion Masseur Stoebs, in his white duck trousers and civilian coat from beneath which peeped a white masseur's sweater, fell into step after groggy and bloodshot-eyed Carol II behind...