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Word: leitz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portraits of the delegates, candidates, and hangers-on that are tenuously related to anything only by the banalities Duncan wrote to accompany his photos. These portraits are really little more than testimonials to the sharpness of a new lens, a prototype 400 mm. f/6.3 telephoto made by Ernst Leitz for the Mexico City Olympics. The lens really is fantastic; things are pretty bad, though, when the most praiseworthy thing about a series of photos is their sharpness...

Author: By Charles M. Hagen, | Title: From the Shelf Self-Portrait: USA | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

DUNCAN GOT ALMOST as much material assistance from NBC. Nikon, and Leitz as Thien gets every month from Nixon. No corporation was able to give Duncan the one thing he needed more than any other-a good...

Author: By Charles M. Hagen, | Title: From the Shelf Self-Portrait: USA | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

...professor of gynecology who was educated at Bonn and later taught there, sat down in 1924 to write about uterine cancer, he postulated that cancer in its first stages must produce ulcers or tumors too small to be seen by the naked eye. He worked with the Leitz optical firm to produce the first colposcope-essentially a pair of binoculars with a light source, mounted on a pedestal. Though the device has been improved, the principle remains the same today. A choice of lenses gives magnifications from six to 25 diameters, and most models of the colposcope carry a camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer: Direct Inspection | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...Sterilon Corp., Buffalo, $15,886; Richards Manufacturing Co., Memphis, $14,000; Orthopedic Equipment Co., Bourbon, Ind., $13,000; Clay-Adams Inc., N.Y.C., $5,457; Warren E. Collins Inc., Boston, $4,855; Taylor Instrument Co., Rochester, N.Y., $4,650; Acme Cotton Products Co., N.Y.C., $4,000; E. Leitz Inc., N.Y.C., $2,880; Birtcher Corp., Los Angeles, $970; J. H. Emerson Co., Cambridge, Mass., $450; Tecumseh Products Co., Tecumseh, Mich., $200; George P. Pilling & Co., Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Those Who Gave | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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