Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the tremendous desire for guidance in writing which has been discovered among returning veterans," he went on to say, "the Boylston professorship should become a focus for building up such facilities." He envisions an integrated structure of composition courses, starting with English A-1, working through a middle group of courses, and through a middle group of courses, and culminating in English...
Ralph Barton Perry, at Harvard since 1902, and a full professor since 1913, is one of the best known American philosophers of this century. A voluminous author, his books range over a wide variety of subjects but focus on ethical philosophy. Perhaps his outstanding theoretical work is "The General Theory of Value" and his course, Philosophy 6, covers the same ground. Of his other courses, Phil 4a is an introduction to ethical theory, while two more advanced ones deal in American philosophy, Professor Perry's "The Thought and Character of William James" won the Pulitzer Award in biography...
...focus reader attention on headlines scattered over a broader expanse of paper, the managing editor prescribed Cheltenham bold to replace the former New York Timesish condensed type. Cheltenham held sway for 20 years when it was voted to go streamlined with so called Airport. The present Board of Editors have decided to change once more by introducing the more relined Bodoni as part of the Crimson's post-war reconstruction...
Moreover, Miss Johnson is a loving-almost a lustful-stylist. Her fondness for soft focus, for words like flow and sift and soft and grey, makes reading her prose, for all its earnestness and frequent beauty, a little like swallowing feathers...
...without a dogma (this made it possible for him to lead a forlorn hope). He also has a sense of the absurd, which makes it difficult for him to take seriously the politics of the Right or the Left. This helps to keep his report of the Resistance in focus as a patriotic (rather than a social) uprising...