Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Mr. Kelley avoided specification to support his charges, he evidently had lots more to say. He intimated that he would continue to focus "public opinion upon the practices by means of which billions of dollars of Colorado oil property have already wrongfully passed out of the hands of the Government...
...blood between the two Republican factions was brought into sharp focus fortnight ago when the party formally opened its campaign at Fogelsville. Mr. Pinchot flayed the "Philadelphia gang." Declared he: "The vast majority of voters are sick and tired of election corruption in Philadelphia. . . . Certain disgruntled political leaders ... are refusing to abide by the rules of the game and accept the decision of the voters in the Republican primary. . . . They propose to bring about the election of a Wet Democrat instead of the Republican nominee. . . . The defection of these masqueraders is neither respectable nor important." Mr. Brown at the rally...
...there is more sky and a sweet Cree girl awaiting him. What lifts it out of the genre of Western stories is the sketching of the old Indian-surrounded life, especially the portraiture of northern Indians. Even if the girl Bluebird waxes Whitmanesque and thus goes slightly out of focus, the rest is an authentic presentation of poetic, finely balanced characters living a splendidly proportioned life, a life now traceable only in the files of the Indian Reports and a very few perceptive studies such as this...
Realizing fully that this subject (Police) is "the very focus of controversy," the Commissioners, after prolonged hemming and hawing, finally take the plunge. They declare: "If Police continues to be a reserved subject, this naturally means that Dyarchy continues," and Dyarchy is stigmatized as nothing less than a "standing challenge" to "exaggerated [native] hostility...
Grimly last week H. E. Maj.-General Sir Frederick Sykes, Governor of Bombay Presidency, moved to smash by military rather than police methods St. Gandhi's independence movement at its focus, Bombay...