Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boy. Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A...
Last January he was the only photographer on hand at Franklin Roosevelt's first Casablanca press conference. He had known the President since 1924, had discovered that there is an "electrical communion between Roosevelt and a lens." At Casablanca he heard the President ask the question that gave the...
Died. Dr. Frank Schlesinger, 72, famed astronomer, pioneer in the measurement of heavenly distances by photography; in Lyme, Conn. Some 40 years ago, he developed precise measurement methods (on photographic plates made with long-focus telescopes) which became standard practice. He was director of Yale's observatory for 21...
Time, moreover, is our savior as well as our destroyer. It is the air we must breathe, the lens through which we perceive timelessness, through which we become conscious:
Cones & Rods. The retina (the screen upon which the lens of the eye casts the image) has two kinds of visual cells: cones, each with its direct line to the brain; rods connected in multiple to the optic nerve fibers. The cones give sharp, color vision, work in bright light...