Word: oskar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic German photographer named Oskar Barnack designed for his own use a camera small enough to slip easily into a pocket, yet as accurate as any hulking news camera made. It used cinema film. Nothing happened till the War was over, then manufacture started under the trade name of Leica. Since then Photographer Barnack's pocket camera has become one of the best known precision cameras in the world. With the special lenses that have been ground to fit in, the Leica (and approximately six similar miniature cameras of rival manufacturers) has profoundly affected the entire field of photography...
Alford Scholarship: John Oskar, 4Dn., of Lawrence, Mass; George J. Donahue, 3Dn., of Boston, Mass...
...Professor Guenther Oskar Dyhrenfurth of Zurich last week cabled Berlin that his party had made a successful ascent of 25,500-ft. Queen Mary Peak in the Himalayas. The message said that Professor Dyhrenfurth's wife Hettie accompanied the others to the top, surpassing the women's mountain climbing record (23,300 ft. up Pinnacle Peak in the Eastern Karakorum Range) established 18 years ago by the late Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workman of Worcester, Mass...
...discipline held fast. At Bonn and Heidelberg, however, young aristocrats began to have their doubts. They took to roaring student songs about Liberty and Freedom, songs they had voluntarily ceased to sing a few months before out of respect for the Nazi "Total State." Korps spirit boiled when Dr. Oskar Staebel, official Nazi student mentor, came out against student caps and the wearing of Korps colors on a narrow ribbon stretched like an ambassador's cordon across the breast...
Died. Dr. Oskar von Miller, 78, founder & director of Munich's Deutsches Museum, world's greatest permanent industrial and scientific exhibit; in Munich, Germany...