Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lectures his learned colleagues, in sweating double entendre, about the collision of two heavenly bodies. At last, after getting blitzed on vodka, and giving the lonely air warden a dog which soon displaces Miss Lamarr in the warden's affections, Professor Powell gets his love life back into focus. Mr. Craig and the dog make a handsome couple. Miss Lamarr has seldom looked more mouth-watering or seemed more tired of it all. William Powell, busy as a beaver, cheats a few glimmers of fun out of all the suggestive mockery...
That credo is hard to link to any coherent political philosophy. Its main focus is on that maze of human emotions that is known to theoreticians as the race problem. It combines practical common-sense proposals for bettering race relations (which intelligent Southerners do anyway) with doctrinaire opinions on what is wrong with Southerners (and what they should do about it) that irritate most Southerners...
...more recent special U.S. court ruling on the anti-trust suit against the Associated Press (TIME, Oct. 18) brought into public focus the question of monopoly, and the allied issue of the press's bigness in chain operations...
...walls of the Baltimore Museum's Junior Gallery were covered by an iconography of the familiar world, seen by the children in very unfamiliar focus. Most of the pictures kept well within the bounds of childhood experience (animals, vehicles, houses, rooms) But some were well outside. One surrealist moppet had painted a huge cactus tree containing a human face, and surrounded by sunflowers surmounted by chickens and peacocks. There were three pictures of lovers on park benches. Art experts and child psychologists who were queried said that children paint such scenes because of unsatisfied curiosity: they do not understand...
Hillier's analyzer, like the electron microscope, does its job by bombarding a substance with electrons. It has an electron "needle" of extremely fine focus. Hillier first lines up his minute target (such as the head or tail of a virus) by means of the microscope, then needles it with an electron stream of some 50,000 volts. This dislodges electrons from the atoms in the target. Since the energy required to dislodge them varies with the kind of atoms present, the loss of energy in the bombarding electrons after they pass through the substance indicates the nature...