Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual patients require operations for brain or spinal-cord tumors. A great proportion of these operations are performed by strong, sociable Dr. Byron Stookey in the green-tiled operating room domed with a glass observers' balcony. Sleepy-green nonreflecting arc lamps designed by Dr. Stookey spotlight the site of operation, but cast no shadow, generate little heat. Dr. Stookey performs scores of operations for the relief of "intractable" pain. Victims of agonizing, incurable cancer, for example, can usually have their last days made easy by a simple severing of certain nerve tracts in the spinal cord...
Permit me to observe that you have done a very interesting and thorough research job in getting together the very interesting sketch that you present this week on Wendell L. Willkie [TIME, July 31]. It is always worthwhile to spotlight men who have done an outstanding job in their field. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Willkie for leading the way back to sane business-government relations...
When my last subscription expired I let it drop because of some of your previous spotlight work. I renewed it this week...
...many golf tournaments an unknown from nowhere steals the show. In last week's performance, however, the headliners hogged the spotlight from beginning to end. When the field of 120 (including Shute) narrowed down to two, the survivors of the six-day elimination matches were Byron Nelson and Henry Picard, the two top-ranking pros in the U. S. (on the basis of their scores in the circuit of P.G.A. tournaments this year...
There Bilitzstein himself played the score on a piano, on a bare stage lighted only by a single spotlight. Although it was originally planned that the author-composer should merely play and describe the action, the actors rose spontaneously from their seats to deliver their lines for a performance which Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman Collection of Journalism, has called "the most exciting evening of theatre this New York generation has ever seen...