Word: focus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is either of a pair of oblong masses of grey matter situated in the inner recesses of the brain. It is the most primitive part of the brain and is common in all vertebrates from fishes to man. The higher thought centres of the brain keep this primitive focus under control. But if the higher controls are injured or dulled, this emotional centre functions energetically. Thoughtless persons are subject to fits & fancies...
...would President Coolidge ask Mr. Morrow to behave in the Land of Maņana? Here was the focus of attention for people who know Mr. Morrow as well as the President does. Like the President, they could align Mr. Morrow's undoubted, ability and his Morgan connection as natural complements. They could see the U. S. well served by an understanding of Mexican conditions that has been found serviceable by J. P. Morgan & Co. They could remember the thoroughness and despatch with which Mr. Morrow, at President Coolidge's request, investigated the Air Service rumpus kicked up by Col. William...
...opportunity to acquaint himself with the beauties of many western portions of the U. S. as evidenced by the various resolutions which state legislatures passed when the site of the President's summer capital was still under debate. Possibly the Vice President's eyes chanced to focus themselves on the resolution passed by the New Mexican legislators-a powerful presentation of New Mexican advantages...
...varied and imposing celebrations" of last week naturally had their focus at Ottawa-that now great and flourishing metropolis the site of which Queen Victoria chose as the Capital of Canada by a most quaint expedient (1858). Her Majesty closed her eyes, gestured with her right hand and brought her extended right forefinger down on a map of Canada. Then, opening har eyes, she remarked: "It is our will that here shall be the Capital of our Dominion of Canada...
...last week in terrific salute. At the Hall of Ceremonies, an imposing structure on a tiny island in the middle of a toy lake, hundreds of Chinese officers and diplomats prostrated themselves thrice. A Chinese band struck up the national anthem-to Western ears shrill and squealing. At the focus of this orgy of homage stood a slim, imperious Chinese, clad from neck to heel in a gorgeous, shimmering, blue silk Field Marshal's uniform of his own invention. This personage was the War Lord of Manchuria and North China, the great Chang Tso-lin. Japan has supported...