Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mansfield's opinion even more striking to the casual observer when he considers that the courses at Harvard deal in a general fashion with the principles of the common law, aiming at fitting the students for practice under the most varied circumstances, while some of the other schools focus their attention primarily on preparation for the Massachusetts Bar Examination...
Most worldwide concern of the year was the Depression, its U. S. focus Wall Street. Down there no man carried a bigger load, none fought the Boojum more effectively than Albert Henry Wiggin, sagacious, resourceful, confidence-inspiring board chairman of Chase National Bank. But other great bankers carried great loads...
...campaign politics. When last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell, upon investigation, pronounced them "without merit or substance," they were left discredited in the Washington gutter for the Senate to nose into. But now, with President Hoover angrily denouncing them and their maker, they were suddenly brought back into sharp public focus...
...western Colorado, owned by all the U. S. people and said by the U. S. Geological Survey to contain 40 billion barrels of petroleum (value: $1 per barrel, minimum), loomed more and more clearly in the public prints last week as an interesting national possession, also as the focus of an alleged national scandal. Ralph S. Kelley, the Interior Department's field chief at Denver, last fortnight resigned his post, loudly protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur was not taking proper care of all the people's great property (TIME, Oct. 6). The Department of Justice asked...
...other departments offering work related to Sociology, and with the help of tutorial guidance, to correlate the knowledge thus obtained into a unified view of society. Not only will Professor Sorokin and greatly to the strictly sociological instruction offered, but a Chairman of this Committee he will form a focus for the correlation of the many efforts in various departments of the University to further sociological studies...