Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week ended the most flamboyant newspaper circulation contest New York City has witnessed in recent years. But even before prize winners in the first contest were announced, the Post had already embarked on a second and bigger one with $25,000 in prizes; and the tabloids Mirror and Daily News had been drawn into the scramble with offers of $40,000 and $15,000 respectively...
...selves as John Cowper Powys. If it were not for the personal pronoun and the exclamation point he would be tongue-tied. A more unabashed egotist than most authors, he gave his ego a field day last week by publishing a grotesque 595-page autobiography. Whether or not the mirror he holds up to himself is distorted, most readers will agree that the image it reflects is a little cracked. Author Powys admits: "I know, and I daresay my reader will willingly bear me out in this, that I am - all the while - never wholly sane." He has tried...
Last fortnight the world's eyes were again on Geraldine Farrar. In Los Angeles an impoverished, cancer-ridden man who once had been her husband had gone into a bathroom, stood before a mirror and stabbed himself seven times with a pair of common sewing scissors. Reporters telephoned Miss Farrar at her Ridgefield, Conn. home, asked for comment on Lou Tellegen's death. Her reply was characteristically candid: "Why should that interest...
...shorter radio waves are the closer they seem to have the characteristics of light waves. A parabolic mirror, set behind an antenna, will concentrate radio waves as it would waves of light. Certain English scientists contend that varied pressure gradients in the air, produced by storms, have the same effect on short waves as layers of glass of varied densities have on light. However, the experiments carried on so far by the new station have led to the conclusion that short waves are not as nearly skin to light waves as was believed...
...property is owned by his mother whose own town house, No. 47 East 65th St., adjoins. A sliding mirror in the President's upstairs living room connects the two houses...