Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chemist W. M. Cohn of Berkeley, Calif, described the solar furnace invented in Germany which he uses for high-temperature work. It consists of a coelostat (flat mirror geared to follow the sun) which feeds the rays into a concave reflector whence they are sharply focused on the substance under treatment. Dr. Cohn uses the sun furnace to make a clear, yellowish, glassy lining for kilns out of zirconium oxide. A half-minute under the reflector melts the oxide at 4,850° F. Higher temperatures than this have been obtained in electric furnaces, but Dr. Cohn believes that...
Although professing to be a scientific organization members of this department will proudly profess that they own a magic mirror. Producing this flendish article the Fogg conjurer will let you examine it until you are satisfied that it contains no hidden hingos or occult openings. It appears to be very similar to the other bronze mirrors of the collection, with one surface polished and a design carved on the back. Then, with sleeves figuratively rolled, the master of magic will reflect a beam of sunlight on a wall --and, hocus poems, the design on the back is projected...
...explanation of this phenomenon is as follows: the surface of the mirror was polished and kept bright by generations of owners. Every time that it was polished, it was rested on its back, or carved surface. Through constant repetition of this act, the metal between the points of contact sunk, imperceptibly, but enough to allow the design on the back to be reflected from the shiny surface...
When in 1914 the first poems of Spoon River Anthology were published in Reedy's Mirror, U. S. poets, critics and plain readers felt that they were at last hearing an authentic U. S. voice. Few poems have had such an immediate and widespread influence. The book was translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Danish, German, Swedish and Japanese, was praised, parodied, attacked and widely sold (80,000 volumes in 1915-16). To a generation that had revolted against the superficial optimism, the stock poses of genteel poets, the 200-odd austere epitaphs of Spoon River were more than...
...Renaissance looked at their best, Mrs. Thomas has sketchily copied France's Diane de Poitiers, a German artist's Venus, naked except for picture hat and necklace, and a Botticelli model. Facing them, smart, stingy Queen Elizabeth of England, decked out to the ears, primps in a mirror, turns her back on the Spanish Armada...