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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Josephine Whitaker, 19, was so proud of her new watch that she rushed to her grandparents' house on the other side of Savile Park in the Yorkshire town of Halifax to show it off. She started for home at 11:40 p.m., declining an offer to stay overnight because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ripper's Return | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Problems that eventually surfaced, sometimes after 20 or 30 years, included clouding of the lens of the eye, leukemia, thyroid cancer, and changes in the genetic material. Particularly vulnerable are fetuses, primarily during their first three months of development, and children under ten.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How Much Is Too Much? | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

In the book that emerged from his dissertation, Levenson addressed a problem that became one of the main intellectual themes of his subsequent work. The book, Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China, examined the life and though of Liang (1873-1929) as a lens through...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Joseph R. Levenson: A Retrospective | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

* Avon beat Revlon into the billion-dollar club six years ago, but it sells only door to door. The remainder of Revlon's sales come from products as varied as Turns, blood plasma and contact lens cleaner.* Son Randolph, 23, attends Stanford.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Kiss and Sell | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Why this apparent digression on Realpolitik in a philosophical work? Because "the metaphysical and political aspects of freedom are in the end inseparable." Ideas are for Barrett, as they were for Plato, "really real"; he writes of them in a confiding, passionate voice that has more in common with his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pursuit of the Really Real | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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