Word: focused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation as the best. Their prizes throw an effective smoke screen over the strong efforts in American writing, permitting persevering incompetents and academic rhymesters to practice their lack of art in the spotlight of public approval. It is true that they stir up public interest, but they focus its attention on second rate efforts and obscure the good. Better far that the prize money and attendant publicity be withheld on years in which there is nothing outstanding than that they be awarded to shallow and pretentious material. Unless men are selected to serve on the Committee who have the courage...
With this shrewd focus, sharpened by careful writing, Author West sets out to bring Darwin into modern perspective, succeeds in making this newest biography of Darwin the freshest yet written. But with all his shrewdness Author West cannot quite clear up the great Darwin paradox: the contrast between his revolutionary work and the conventional Victorian who produced...
...psychologists strenuously quarreled over John B. Watson's theories of behaviorism, now largely forgotten. Another uproar sprang from the importation from Germany of "dynamic patterns of behavior" (Gestalt psychology). An endless dispute goes on over the value and significance of I. Q. tests. At present a major trouble focus is the research carried on at Duke University by Joseph Banks Rhine, by which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into...
...whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work. At the flood's height 10,000 refugees were being fed & sheltered in or near the city. Focus of operations was the San Bernardino Auditorium which served as an improvised shelter...
When first copies of Focus arrived in San Antonio, pecan shellers were on strike, the city in an uproar (TIME, Feb. 28). In an hour 2,700 copies of the 10? Focus were snapped up. San Antonio's gasping public tried not to believe Leslie White's timely charge that "it is possible for a four-plus syphilitic to obtain a health card from the San Antonio health department for 50?," to go to work shelling pecans for the nation to eat. Shortly Editor White was indicted for criminal libel. Certain of his facts, he was delighted...