Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coupled on ahead of even the Tenno's private car was that which bore the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, a divine, holy and potent relic comparable to a Crown. In one legendary instance the Mirror was nefariously buried and concealed; but the Sun Goddess at once caused it to project upwards from the ground a radiance so transcendant that impious beholders were blinded and driven mad. Since then prudent Japanese have taken no liberties with the Divine Mirror, originally inherited by the first Tenno Jimmu from his great-great-grandmother, Sun Goddess Omaterosu O-Mikami, who established...
Obliquely interesting to the light physicists at Washington was the California Institute of Technology's decision to build a 200-inch telescope near Mount Wilson. The present Mount Wilson apparatus has a 100-inch reflecting mirror. The new one, to be done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack...
...three years after that he wrote sporting articles for the Hudson Despatch; he lived with onetime editor of the New York Mirror Phil Payne who a year ago disappeared into the ocean with the airplane Old Glory. After the War he became an agent for a California fruit company. Now he is an independent food broker; a seedy little Irishman, his office in Manhattan is decorated with labelled cans and a print of The Reaper; it has this sign upon the door...
...marketing "The Taxlessmobile" hinted that several young, pert, pretty female demonstrators had failed to evoke police reprimands for driving without a license. So a hard-faced, middle-aged woman went out to seek trouble, find publicity. The "Taxlessmobile" has three bicycle wheels, mud guards, lamps, windshield, rear view mirror, steering wheel, collapsible...
...VIII. Orlando scribbled five-act tragedies, a dozen histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke when in a mirror she watched him make merry with a court wanton...