Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieve this, Dr. Feinbloom applied the principle of the microscope and made doublet lenses-really two lenses in a plastic rim, with a sealed air space in between. He also flattened the outer curves of the lenses from spherical to paraboloid shapes. The doublet lenses focus at infinity and the eye itself makes the focusing adjustment for objects beyond a few feet away. A short-focus pair is used for reading...
...father & son featuring such types as deep, silent directors (genius division), mean old financiers with moist-eyed granddaughters, fading stars, grasping agents, gossip columnists, and other native life of the celluloid jungle. Dub in a score of documentary asides on 20 pre-talkie years of motion-picture history, focus on the printed page, and the nickering result is The Magic Lantern, Author Robert Carson's 504-page formula for the great Hollywood novel and the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for December...
Miller, who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1938, is best known for this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Death of a Salesman." He also received the New York Drama Critics Award twice, in 1947 and 1949. Miller has written the novel, "Focus," "All My Sons," and several other plays...
That alumni in 1932 winced at the bought of a Union devoted to Freshmen only was not surprising. Most remembered, and some had even shared in, the long fight to build the Union into Harvard's most democratic club, the focus of social life at the College...
...took a series of photographs-of newspaper headlines, trademarks, comic strips-which he showed last week to a New York meeting of the Biological Photographic Association. The pictures were clear enough, considering the size of the film, but they were somewhat distorted because an eye lens is intended to focus on a curved surface, not on a flat film...