Word: focus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly the problem of deciding what measure of freedom to grant those who would destroy freedom is an exceedingly important issue even in an America well-grounded in the democratic tradition. Even, so the committee could have done the nation a great service, and its failure brings acutely into focus the need for public insistence on a higher standard of morality in political circles...
Dead or alive, Andrés Nin was the focus of the Barcelona trial last week, just as Leon Trotsky was the focus of the Moscow trial after which 16 Trotskyists were executed (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936). In the prisoners' box at Barcelona sat seven Ninists. The seven and Nin were charged, as members of his P.O.U.M., or Workers Party for Marxist Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make...
...Atlantic County Medical Society, 60-year-old Dr. Samuel Stern of Atlantic City announced that he had successfully used a new drug, Arthranol, for the treatment of arthritis. Arthranol is a highly complex salt made from a nitrogen compound, phosphorus and iodine. Since most doctors believe that a focus of bacterial infection is responsible for arthritis they have leaned toward vaccine treatment. Dr. Stern has long held that the most important beneficial elements in a vaccine are the aminoacids produced by bacteria. In hunting for a more potent form of aminoacid he hit upon a salt which has a nitrogenous...
...route to Palomar Mountain, Calif, are the 48 structural steel parts of the giant 200-inch telescope which will bring to focus four times as much light as the 100-inch telescope, make visible at least two billion stars now unseen...
...person whose normal hearing was sharpened. Dr. Kennedy used blindfolded subjects who were not told the purpose of his experiment. Near the "sender" but unknown to him was installed a six-foot parabolic reflector to project any unconscious whispering toward the "receiver." The receiver had a similar reflector to focus any such sounds on his ears. When the sender was instructed to imagine that he was shouting the symbol, there were enough sound cues to swell the receiver's average of correct guesses far above the chance expectation. But when the sender was not instructed to indulge in "mental...