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Word: camera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also brings to the screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical season. A little skinny on the stage, Miss Martin's figure is enhanced by the tendency of the camera to fill out curves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Schmidt camera is unique among astronomy telescope in giving sharp focus over a large area of the sky. Light enters the telescope through a correcting lens, travels onto a spherical concave mirror, and is reflected back onto the film which is also curved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Student Invents Device Simplifying the Schmidt Sky Camera | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...older America. . . . "The 1940 New Yorker Album" assembles an excellent selection of the most unique cartoon humor in the world. . . . James Thurber's "The Last Flower" has been causing a mild furor of late, with its poetic parable of the future of our civilization. Unequivocally recommended. . . "U.S. Camera Annual: 1940" is edited by Steichen which means that it should be the best available, and is . . . Hyman Levy's "Modern Science" is a difficult but rewarding study of the physical sciences. . . Agnes Newton Keith's "Land Below the Wind" is a chronicle of four years in North Bornce. . . . Phil Stong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Improvements of the famous Schmidt astronomical camera worked out by James G. Baker Junior Fellow, open possibilities of a new sky-camera which is now being constructed in cooperation with amateur Boston Telescope makers, it was announced by the Observatory yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Student Invents Device Simplifying the Schmidt Sky Camera | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...Fountain Valley School in Colorado, Cobb was Editor of the Year Book, and before that he belonged to the Camera Club at Milton Academy. At College he is a member of the Pierian Sodality and Treasurer of the Mountaineering Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John C. Cobb, Jr. '41 Elected Crimson Photographic Head | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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