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...instead of plastic, he uses a glass lens. Only 5 mm. in diameter, the circular lens has wings (Schreck calls them "bridges") that give it an overall width of 11½ to 13½ mm., according to the size of the eyeball. The wings fit into the angles where the iris is attached, and hold the lens steady so that it can never fall back into the eyeball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lenses for Old | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...feet or less wide, curb to curb. On many of these, parking on both sides and two-way traffic is permitted. The average car is six feet three inches wide, and, parked within one foot of the curb, leaves less than thirteen feet for two cars whose width totals twelve and one half feet to pass...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: Parking: No Backing Out | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

...just right as the reformed fellow-traveling secretary who regretfully looks on as Ford gets caught in the snare; Rafael Campos (The Blackboard Jungle) is a good Angel. And the picture has another attraction: filmed in black and white for a screen of much less than the common contemporary width, it can be comfortably watched by people who do not have wall eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...know how much room that leaves between two passing cars?" The audience became silent and waited for the answer. "The width of your index finger," the traffic official concluded...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: The Citizens Meet | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

...Waterfront, a black-and-white, normal-width movie made in New Jersey, was named 1954's best picture, picked up seven other Oscars-e.g., for best actor, Marlon Brando; best supporting actress, Eva Marie Saint; best director, Elia Kazan; best story and screenplay, Budd Schulberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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