Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrival of color photography as a standard item of Hollywood technique will be signalized only when critics give it the final seal of their approval by not mentioning it at all. Valley of the Giants is photographically far enough ahead of its time to deserve this type of accolade. Rich...
The Milky Way galaxy has been popularized as a vast agglomeration of stars shaped like a lens or a discus, or like two very shallow saucers glued together rim to rim. So far as the dense masses of the Milky Way are concerned, this is scientifically correct. But in recent...
At a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Stockholm last week, Dr. Shapley reported on 2,000 Cepheid variables (giant stars which fluctuate regularly in brightness) at considerable distances from the Milky Way's central plane. These have the effect of stretching the galaxy's "vertical" diameter...
Meanwhile, his buildings, spotted around Europe, excited critics. Henry-Russell Hitchcock called his first, in Wiesbaden, Germany, among the world's best modern houses, was as enthusiastic about two small apartment buildings in Zurich. At the Harvard exhibition, visitors were impressed most by the variety and ingenuity of Architect...
Lensman Valentine's invention has not been patented and he did not disclose exact technical details. But film executives who viewed his work pronounced it good. Heart of the device is a prism composed of two paper-thin sheets of glass fitted together at a 45° angle. This...