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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A special kind of flying saucer, says Menzel, has been seen four times, just after the launching of a big "sky hook" balloon. They appear as roundish objects, apparently at a great height. He believes that they are caused by the balloon itself when it rises through a thin layer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Astronomer's Explanation: THOSE FLYING SAUCERS | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

The most remarkable piece of research done in making the microscope was the was the objective lens designed by David S. Gray '40, Gray's problem was to design a high-powered lens that would be simultaneously transparent to both ultra-violet and normal light without re-focussing. Mathematical calculations...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: New Ultraviolet Ray Microscope Probes Mysteries of Cell Cancer | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

The new lens was the fundamental stumbling block, and once it was completed, other men went to work on an apparatus that would house the tiny piece of glass and enable it to perform its amazing function. Robert C. Jones '38, designed an electronic brain that instantly calculates the exposure...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: New Ultraviolet Ray Microscope Probes Mysteries of Cell Cancer | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

Other Polaroid scientists soon joined him in the initial attacks upon theory. The first problem met was exactly what kind of device they wanted. What wave-length could best aid the biologists? What did the biologists want to find? Then there was the problem of how to make it, the...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: New Ultraviolet Ray Microscope Probes Mysteries of Cell Cancer | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

Wells, camera at the ready, began running toward her, but a passing motorist, Cyrus A. Samuel, beat him to the scene. "Don't jump!" cried Samuel. Replied Mrs. Durant: "Nobody can do anything. I'm very ill." But as Samuel kept pleading, she seemed undecided. According to Samuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Problem of Pictures | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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