Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The mysterious disease is retrolental fibroplasia (RLF), in which there is a fibrous thickening of tissue behind the lens in the eye. Nobody knows the cause. The effect is to becloud the retina, the screen on which the lens focuses its image of things seen. Often the retina itself is...
The Observatory's work is chiefly of the second type, however, which is of equal importance and supplements the other work. The instrumental equipment used is of average or even small size, built to emphasize statistical surveys and long range cataloguing program. Although the Observatory has telescopes ranging over sixty...
It was here in Boston that he became interested in astronomy. As a member of the Boston Amateur Telescope Makers Club, he learned the skill of lens grinding. His telescopes are considered by a member of the Harvard Astronomy Department to be as fine as any amateur instruments he's...
The name of Robert A. Taft was entered in the New Jersey presidential primary on March 6, when the Taft campaign seemed to be rolling with gathering force toward the Republican nomination. That was before Ike Eisenhower walloped Taft in New Hampshire, and before the spectacular call for Ike in...
Mill on the Po could have been an excellent dramatization of the conflicts between Italian landlords and tenant farmers at the end of the nineteenth century. Recalling the first formulation of agricultural unions in the Po valley, it is a sharp, artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each...