Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lens & Retina. Their most notable conclusion in this period: the fibrous tissue was not a foreign growth between the lens and the retina (the sensitive screen upon which the lens focuses images), but a swollen, greyish transformation of the retina itself. It occurred when the babies were between two and four months...
...long while Bucknell's faculty and students had a hard struggle. At the first commencement in 1851, seven sheepish seniors took turns wearing the only gown in town, changed costumes behind a screen. But as central Pennsylvania grew, so did the school. Last week Bucknell held its summer commencement with full academic pomp. One hundred sixty-six of its 2,400 students received their diplomas, took a farewell glimpse at the spacious 300-acre campus overlooking the Susquehanna Valley. Among alumni who had preceded them: General Tasker Bliss, ex-'73, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in World...
Until this year, television's friends & foes had generally agreed that radio's soap operas would not lend themselves successfully to the TV screen. As is often the case with expert guessers on television, they were wrong. Headed by the successful The Goldbergs, soap operas will surely widen their TV beachhead this autumn. But there are snags, nevertheless, for both soap operas and other radio serials. Some of the shows promised or projected, and their problems...
Biologically, she was-and biology is good enough for Hollywood any time. Elizabeth soon got her first screen kiss in Julia Misbehaves and returned it charmingly; her fan mail climbed. Some Annapolis midshipmen were suddenly moved to vote her "The Girl We'd Abandon Ship For." Some Harvard boys added: "The Girl We'll Never Lampoon...
...Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). William Powell in Love Crazy...