Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President indicated a deficit of $2,000,000,000, we may have a larger deficit than was planned. Between now and that time, however, increased tax receipts and possibly a business revival may take some of the load from the Government, so that the important thing is to focus attention on the deficit of this year...
...academic significance of this diatribe is that an educational institution cerebrates on its belly, and good scholarship must wait upon a balanced menu. Were the authorities to focus upon the problem under their noses, the path would straightway be cleared for the furtherance of the humanities. And incidentally pruning the bully beef and mutton chop outlay would not only finance the purchase of greens but might net Lehman Hall a tidy little surplus as well. Rhodes P. Frothingham...
...being free from the customary pomposity and elephantic periods of the bench. It stated quite clearly that to call a sincere effort "to show how the screen of consciousness with its ever shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries, as it were on a plastic palimpsest, not only what is in the focus of each man's observation of the actual things about him, but also in the penumbral zone residua of past impressions" cannot reasonably be dismissed as obscenity. If Judge Woolsey never brandishes a gavel again, he will, notwithstanding, have amply justified by this decision alone whatever salary New York...
...that Torgler's chances of acquittal were strong. It is true that this might bring further attention to bear on the question of the real firebugs, but that embarrassment is inevitable whatever the decision. To execute Torgler with such patently illogical and insufficient evidence would only serve first to focus sympathy on a Red, and secondly, suspicion and hatred on his enemies; men of Torgler's courage and intelligence make martyrs not soon forgotten. Acquittal will be a hard degree for the court to issue; Herr Goebbels has not led the German people to expect such a decision...
Loud was the applause of Dr. Maher's professional listeners at Shelton. Next morning the Press took up his story, twisted it out of technical focus, sent it rumbling across the land. Headline gobblers gathered that a cure for tuberculosis was, if not already achieved, at least imminent...