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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photographers point for faces & figures. Tabloid and Hearstmen go after "cheese-cake"?leg-pictures of sporty females. All keep sharp guard against "lens-lice"? nonentities who try to force their way into a picture. To get rid of a pest a photographer may have to "French it"?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down the Bay | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

At Lens, near Lille, France another case of metamorphosed hermaphroditism came to light last week. The affair began last Christmas when the parish priest noticed that Alice Henriette Acces, 16, member of the girls' choir, had imperceptibly changed from hoyden to boor. Henriette had a thin mustache. Her voice was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Girls into Boys | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

The DeMille technique is as peculiar as his ideology. He is almost the only director in Hollywood who still uses a megaphone. Bald, ruddy-faced, he wears riding breeches and puttees made especially for directing. On a silver chain he carries his "finder," a glass similar to the lens of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: DeMille's 60th | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

In Professor Black's experiment a beam of light from a small are is passed through a slit, through a half-silvered mirror, and onto a rapidly rotating stainless steel mirror. This sends the light down the length of a corridor in the Research Building, through a special longfocus lens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Black Reproduces Foucault-Michelson Experiment in Determination of Speed of Light | 4/28/1934 | See Source »

Last week at some wrestling matches in Philadelphia. Arena, a slight, dark Public Ledger photographer named Donald Corvelli spotted Franklin Roosevelt Jr. & party in the tenth row. During some excitement caused by one cf the wrestlers being hurled from the ring, Cameraman Corvelli popped his flashbulb, aimed his lens at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Camera-Shy Roosevelt | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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