Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Spotters caught the enemy in focus. Archies opened up. The first roar had not died when a roar of British throats took its place. Down the sky like an aimless maple-seed pod fluttered a crippled Fiat. Two parachutes opened and floated down. They were seen to land on the sea, but the gear dragged the pilots down before a destroyer could gaff them...
...Department of Commerce Building and made public his figures. Total population of the U. S. as of April 1, he announced, was 131,409,881. To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add. Chiefly he wanted to focus attention on what he considered the Census' most striking fact: from 1930 to 1940 the U. S. had shown the lowest rate of increase in population in 150 years...
...executives last month at a dinner in the studio commissary. Two complete camera crews (cameraman and two assistants) operated the old and new cameras for their bosses while a stop watch timed the performances. At "go" each crew swung its camera into line, slated the film, checked focus, exposed 45 feet of film, stopped, slated the next "take," made another 45-foot shot of the same scene. The new camera took just half the time...
This immemorial gateway from the Orient to the Mediterranean has an inner and an outer gate. The inner gate is Port Said, which is the focus of British strategy throughout the region. The outer gate is the island of Perim at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden. In World War I the British found their enemies, the Turks, in Asia and drove eastward and northward from the Canal into Arabia, Palestine and Syria. In World War II, when Italy declared war in June, the British found their enemies on the other side of the gate and faced about...
...high stone-walled Chungking compound, the "Gissimo" and "Gissima," as Chungkingites call them, receive hundreds of generals, diplomats, politicians, distinguished foreign journalists. Centre of resistance and focus of command, the compound is also an amusing object of gossip. No act of this remarkable pair is too trivial for discussion all over China: if he flies to Chengtu for two days' rest, it is taken to mean that the Government is moving; if she flies to Hong Kong to have her teeth fixed, it is rumored that China will borrow ?25,000,000 from Britain...