Sentence:  Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer <WSD>television</WSD> a vivid picture of the manager himself. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Vision at a distance.