Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pinko, idea-popping Professor Clyde R. Miller of Teachers' College, Columbia, who gives teachers as much advice per year as any man in the U. S., last week advised them what to read to see the news in clear focus. For the "intelligent teacher" he prescribed the New York American (Right Wing), New York Times or Herald Tribune (Centre), Daily Worker (Left Wing), World-Telegram, Post or Sun (school pages). To this he added magazines: New Masses (Extreme Left), Nation or New Republic (Left Centre), American Observer or TIME (facts), America, Commonweal, Christian Century (religion), Social Frontier (progressive education...
...seems only incidental to Saratoga's racing-season pastimes of dining & dancing at half a dozen night clubs, overdrinking in countless bars, recuperating with the dubious aid of mineral waters, betting on anything from the next race to three dice in a bird cage, horses are still the focus of the town's excitement. Last week, the feature race of the first day of the meet was the Flash, for two-year-olds...
Thermocouples are activated by infra-red radiation as well as by starlight. It would be possible to put the thermocouple at the focus of a movable parabolic reflector, and to assume, when a peak of electrical activity was noted, that the reflector was trained on some strong source of radiation-such as a metal ship out to sea in the dark. If this is how the Signal Corps' ship-finder works, it differs in no essential detail from the infra-red "Fog-eye" developed by Paul Humphrey Macneil and successfully demonstrated two years ago (TIME...
...youth went to live among the poor, captured Author Maugham's imagination. He visited the town where Loyola had suffered, even attempted some of Loyola's milder exercises for mortifying the flesh, but only made himself ill without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus, he peered through the popular novels of that spectacular moment of Spanish history in order to visualize the dusty, hungry, breakneck life of the common people. The amazing fertility of Lope de Vega, who wrote 2,200 plays, the cool, sinister elegance of El Greco, the salty, practical fervor of Saint Teresa...
...rats in Monrovia were so bad that bubonic plague was prevented from spreading through West Africa only by the fact that it had no harbor in which ships could dock; that a smallpox epidemic ravaged the interior; that the simplest health measures were unknown and Liberia might become a focus of infection for all Africa. This the U. S. State Department could believe. In 1929 U. S. Minister William Treyanne Francis died there of yellow fever...