Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover last week kept the London Conference on Germany's economic rehabilitation under sharp White House focus. Because this was the first such European parley the U. S. had officially joined in a dozen years, he was at its outset slightly apprehensive. But when after 72 hours the seven-power meeting adopted his ideas of relief and adjourned without any political eruptions, the President was a happy and relieved man. Secretaries Stimson and Mellon, as U. S. delegates in London, agreed to a 90-day renewal of the $100,000,000 international loan to Germany...
...past fortnight bankers all over the world have been pondering that prophecy. The greatest economic crisis since the War has arisen in Germany. Was this what Banker Norman was foreseeing? Last week the focus of action swung from Germany to Paris and London (see p. 14). But what was happening inside Germany? What was the German Government doing to defend capitalism...
...image of the person at the other end, the size of a desk-photograph, flickers on a little lens. Voices in telephonic television boom resonantly and recognizably (they are carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot taken out of focus. Weirdly this snapshot rolls its unfocused eyes and moves its puffy lips. Celebrities who have telephoned their pictures and voices include King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, who chattered in their own language, and Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, who said: "Why, if you linked up the important...
Members of the University, both Faculty and undergraduate, who presume to join in the now nation-wide pastime of deducing relations of cause and effect from sets of statistics, will focus their attention on English and Economics when scanning the figures released yesterday by the Committee on the Choice of Electives with regard to Freshman concentrators. The upward trend in Economics, still numerical leader among the fields, has been cut short by a drop of 16, while the English department sees an increase of 31 in the number of men working under...
...accommodate himself to a three-dimensional, colored world. He cannot yet gauge distances by angles and shadows. Everything seems flat. He must touch objects to perceive their spacial relationship. By & by, as his pupils (they are artificial) and his cleansed lenses learn to accommodate, he will be able to focus sights normally...