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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A short, unheroic figure, 31-year-old Photographer Sadovy waded into the thick of the fighting with a pair of old Leicas. used a 35-mm. wide-angle lens at close range for most of his pictures. He leaned over rebels' shoulders to sight his camera along their rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Portrait of Death | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

During World War II, Dr. Witcher did distinguished work on radar. Later he turned to a scientific study of the special needs of blind people. This work took him to Haskins Laboratories, New York City, and later to M.I.T., where he concentrated on practical gadgets. The one demonstrated last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vision Probe | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Three cameras from New York's WABC-TV will be used in Priceton's Dillon gymnasium, including one with a special lens capable of picking up the movies from the same screen which the players will be watching.

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Princeton Coach, Game Movies To Appear on 'Omnibus' Sunday | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

Atomic Light. A radioactive flashlight is being sold by Boston's New England Nuclear Corp. The small metal cylinder (about i in. in diameter, 1½ in. long) has a plastic lens at one end, contains a long-lasting tritium "battery" produced at Oak Ridge. It will take twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

We sat down. Somebody remarked that there are 250,000 plankton in a teaspoonful of sea water, I eyed my glass. There is no trust in the world, I thought, and somebody asked how large, really, is a portuguese man o'war? "You must be using a magnifying glass on...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: More Secrets of the Reef | 10/24/1956 | See Source »

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