Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Using this device in Southern California, last year, experiments were made by Prof. Michelson which measured the speed of light-now given as 186,000 miles a second-with a possible error of only 20 miles per second. A light and the interferometer were placed on one peak. A mirror was placed on a peak 20 miles distant. By receiving rays direct from the light next to it and rays which had travelled 40 miles (from the light to the distant mirror and back), the interferometer showed the light fringes and dark lines of interference from which the speed...
Divorced. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor, cinema actress, whose engagement to Pugilist Jack Dempsey has been long reported) from one Kenneth Malcolm Peacock, in Philadelphia. She charged cruel and barbarous treatment. Said the Daily Mirror, Manhattan, gum-chewers' sheetlet: "It now appears as if a romance started when Jack was a gangling youth and Estelle was a giggling girl would lead to wedding bells...
...telephones, a dumb waiter, a dumber delivery man, hot water, cold ice and a burglar. Among other good sketches must be classed "Crossed Wires" in which the operator gets off at least six good ones in a row, and "Crystal Wedding Day". This has in it some brand new mirror effects...
...election has therefore been called to end a delicate situation. Ziwar Pasha will attempt under an old electoral law to solicit support for his Cabinet from the electorate. The chances are that he will be successful; the chances are that the result of the election will not mirror the true expression of the people's will. The new election will be held on the electoral college plan and that will give the Government, through its officials, the unrivaled opportunity of influencing the voters in its favor...
...newspapers, however, spoke of another cause. While the Times, World, and even the gum-chewers' Mirror dwelt only upon the diluted condition of Dr. Grant's blood, the Herald-Tribune joined with the gum-chewers' Daily News in suggesting that the breakdown was due in some part to the strain occasioned by Dr. Grant's efforts to break himself of an attachment for one Nelly Kelly, unfortunate female whom Dr. Grant had befriended, employed as housemaid, then loved. Both the Herald-Tribune and the News, each in its own manner, de voted several columns to accounts of this affair...