Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schmidt camera is unique among astronomy telescope in giving sharp focus over a large area of the sky. Light enters the telescope through a correcting lens, travels onto a spherical concave mirror, and is reflected back onto the film which is also curved...
...better start can be made towards a new unity than the condemnation of Russian aggression. All future advance along progressive lines can spring only from this sharp severance from Communist ideology. Harvard's Student Union should not allow its growth to be hundred either from within or without. At the National Convention of the American Student Union after Christmas, relations with Russia will again develop into a storm-center. Already a hundred New York chapters have decided to stick by the Party Line. But on a national vote dissension will break out through the Student Union. If the Party Line...
When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken...
...what he tells of will never be the same again, Koeves subtitles his volume "A European Testament." In a modest and genuine way, it is. It is also what it set out to be: a good book about travel, of which the chief regret is, that with so sharp a focus drawn on the theory of travel, the lens is trained so little on its practice...