Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultimate in cinematic realism by using a hemispherical screen and central projector (as in a planetarium), by using an annular lens (as sometimes used on submarine periscopes), which presents a doughnut-shaped picture to the eye (or camera) covering 360° around the horizon, and practically to the zenith. This picture, projected back through the same type of lens, would recreate the original scene; the camera could project downward from the center of the theater, and could include two such lenses in a polarized system on a common axis for 3-D; also the vibrating-prism system of Citizen Kane...
...Leverett family memoir heralds the appointment in a manner typical of the time: "In the zenith of his fame and popularity . . . Judge 'Leverett was elected to the presidency of Harvard College-the cherished seat of learning of the country and the pride and ornament of New England...
...Swift & Co.'s 68-year-old Chairman Harold Swift agreed with Ryerson: "The only reason I am remaining in the business is because I am the last of six sons of my father. I am still heading the company because the employees want me to." Snapped Zenith Radio's tough, 62-year-old President Eugene MacDonald Jr.: "If [Ryerson] wants to retire, then it's time to retire." Grinning slyly, 93-year-old Meat Packer Oscar Mayer, still running his own company, said: "He should retire. That's not too young-for a banker...
...broadcast reports of the visions to the waiting crowds. Pilgrims contributed heavily for the shrines and other local improvements urged by the "vision children" on "instructions" which the Virgin passed on to them. Packed inns and crowded souvenir shops lifted Heroldsbach's 1,100 inhabitants to a wild zenith of prosperity...
...tavern on the West Side made it possible for fans to stay in Chicago. Customer Syl Szajers, a technician at Zenith Radio, moved a converted TV set of his own design into the Polonia Grove bar. He rigged up a 40-foot mast on the tavern roof, perched a five-element antenna atop it, and pointed it in the direction of Milwaukee. A homemade booster amplifier brought in the signal and the Polonia's customers watched happily as Robinson knocked out his opponent. Said Szajers modestly: "Oh, the picture was a little shaky-but so was Rocky Graziano...