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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The lens of a small movie camera, hand-operated for secrecy, projected through a concealed hole into the next office.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Caught in the Act | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Unfinished Business is a mosaic of wisely done camera sequences. Irene Dunne, a small-town Midwestern voice teacher, has come to Manhattan for adventure and a career. Saddened by her unrequited love for Foster, a wealthy wolf, she flunks her operatic try out. As she departs, she is told that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1941 | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

But if the Treasury really wanted a "comprehensive" picture of all foreign property in the U.S., the terms of its order made a strangely narrow-angled lens. Exempted were all foreign nationals, including Chinese and Japanese, "who have been domiciled in and residing only in the U.S. . . . since June 17...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Comprehensive Picture? | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

So worried are the judges over the closeness of the Varsity race that they have ordered a camera with a telescopic lens mounted on a building overlooking the finish line, and if the race lives up to its expectations, they will wait until they have photographic evidence before rendering their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henley Regatta to Promise Keen Race For 150 Crews | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

"In telling facts, public leaders may sometimes be able to overpersuade or cajole the commentators, but the photographer's lens always remains true."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Willlcie on Photographers | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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