Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucas, who wanted to see the smallest detail possible, revived the German's idea, designed an ultraviolet microscope for experimentation. Because ultraviolet is invisible to the human eye he had to focus the rays upon a sensitive fluorescent plate, take pictures of the objects under his microscope. He wanted the instrument primarily to study metals, but since it was so powerful he and other scientists applied it to living cells. The shallowness of focus allowed them to take horizontal cross sections 1/100,000 of an inch apart...
While the hearing at Washington is so far privy to the world, the discussion is more in public focus at Boston. As was expected, the Roman Catholic Church is furnishing most of the opposition. The attitude of Catholics is wholly understandable. It follows logically and intelligently from the first premises of Catholic theology. The Church of Rome, consciously limiting itself to the sphere of faith and morals, takes no cognizance of the economic and social aspects of the question. It regards the problems of chastity and procreation as it did in the seventh century and as it probably will...
...synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin. The upper part of the erect torso is realistically rounded. The lower part is an. exaggerated rotundity of all anatomy. The thighs (they are cut off just above the knees) are portly kegs. Focus of all the curves is the gestation. Commented the Daily Express: "You white foulness! This man cracks bad jokes with a chisel!" An interpreter: "It is supposed to illustrate a passage from the Book of Revelations how a woman 'clothed with the sun and with the moon under her feet...
College drinkers care little what happens to the Eighteenth Amendment. They drink--amendment or no amendment but with repeal of the prohibition act a college education would cost them less. On the other hand, the gents of the underworld focus their attention on the activities of the lawmakers. Their jobs depend upon a continuance of the present lawlessness of liquor sale...
...hoped that the Governors' conference will bolster the ineffectual efforts of the national administration in coping with this problem. The report of the conference on unemployment insurance will at least stimulate and focus attention on one phase of the situation that may prove to be the solution of much of the distress occasioned by unemployment...