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Word: mirrored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Westerners, according to yesterday's New York Times, have gone him one better. Where he only powdered, they bring their shaving-tackle to the lecture-room, lather, rub it in or not according to their preferences in shaving-cream, and shave with as much success as lack of a mirror will allow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATHER AND BLATHER | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...Certainly, to an outsider, the Harvard Lampoon is more that a humorous magazine," says the article, "it is an individuality. If it is a solemn undertaking to become a Harvard undergraduate, the Lampoon eases the yoke; if the Harvard undergraduate gets too serious, the Lampoon holds up a mirror to him. Satire and good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average editorial. The college humorous paper that is content to remain merely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY LAUDS LAMPOON IN GLOWING TERMS | 1/22/1926 | See Source »

...that it is. For certainly, to an outsider, the Lampoon is more than an undergraduate humorous paper: It has an individuality. If it is a solemn undertaking to became a Harvard undergraduate, the Lampoon cases the yoke; if the Harvard undergraduate gets too serious, the Lampoon holds up the mirror to him. Satire and good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average "editorial." The college humorous paper that is content to remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/20/1926 | See Source »

Sitting before the mirror in his dressing room, engaged in the task of remodelling his face for the foot-lights, Leon Errol, famed master-comedian, last night expressed his views on various phases of the theatre in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE MEN POOR ACTORS SAYS ERROL | 12/10/1925 | See Source »

...dramatize in their imaginations the great discoveries of science, would find the actual moment of such discoveries dull enough. One more figure added to a string of decimals, a barely perceptible change of color in a test tube, a splinter of light measured against the angle of a graphed mirror-and the thing is done. The laboratory worker wipes his hands on his apron and goes home to write a paper for the next meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Last week that notable body, convening in Madison, Wis., listened to various amazing reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Madison | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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