Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrown around Aachen in a classic bear hug had posed two deadly questions to the Germans : 1 ) should the ancient spa (and modern textile and coal mining center) be defended to the last cellar, as a Stalingrad-like model for the German home front? 2) was it also the focus of the main Allied offensive to smash the Siegfried Line...
There is another reason for this X-ray tube's phenomenal performance: it uses a "magnetic lens," similar to that in the electron microscope (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942), to focus the electron beam in the tube on a bull's-eye only .01 inch in diameter, instead of the usual quarter-inch focal spot. Thus the X rays emerge in a sharp beam and produce well-defined shadows even after passage through thick steel...
...Harry von Zell had Adolphe Menjou at the mike. Von Zell: "Tell them about this great sight here tonight." Menjou: "Tell them? How on earth can I?" But the De Mille cue had been given and, suddenly, the wandering blue kleig lights turned from the flag-draped platform to focus on the concrete opening whence football teams usually come rushing out in triumph...
...could get was Britain, where he worked on the staff of our London office and kept in close touch with the Balkan underground (he is one big reason why TIME has so often been first to bring you news of the dramatic events bubbling up in Yugoslavia-first to focus your attention on the rise of Mihailovich, then first to call the turn on the clash between Mihailovich and Tito...
...unable to judge the speed of distant motion, yet be a good inspector of small parts. Most eyes have an aptitude for some special type of vision -distant or near, wide or narrow angled; or for the judgment of space, shape or motion; or for rapid change of focus. Industry stands to profit by selecting eyes for special jobs, adjust jobs to the eyes available...