Word: lens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grant deferments as they saw fit, no two boards saw eye to eye. In Los Angeles, a board placed Cinemactor James Stewart in Class I-B (for limited service) because he was ten pounds underweight. (Jimmy Stewart, weight 145, declared he wanted to serve.) In Chicago, a husky named Len Weiner was drafted although (at 245 Ib.) he was well over Army weight standards...
...Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract cinemovies made about five years ago by New Zealand-born Len Lye, show how musical sensation may be transferred to visual images...
...breastroker Tony Soltysiak, sprinter Witold Babula, and diver Len Gath the visitors have three capable performers, but, for the most part, the meet will do little more than provide some of the younger Crimson squad members with valuable experience. In addition, dorsal ace Art Bosworth may get a chance to try his hand at one of the free-style events...
Broberg is not a rough basketball player despite his personal foul record. Up at Hanover when he was ejected in the first half it was a question of the officials calling everything they saw and almost everything they suspected. He is a hard man to guard, and Columbia's Len will deserves credit for a brilliant bit of defensive play in limiting him to but five points as the Lions upset Coach Cowles...