Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast room in the Corning Glass Works at Corning. N. Y. For one day they were to be both stagehands and actors. For weeks they had rehearsed every movement they were to make during one eleven-hour performance-the pouring of the 2OO-inch (16 ft. 8 in.) telescope mirror for California Institute of Technology. High as a house in the centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors...
Hour after hour like a well-drilled football team the ladlemen dipped and poured load after load. The completed mirror was to weigh 20 tons: that meant 100 trips. To a balcony commanding the scene 50 spectators at a time were admitted, quickly shooed away to make room for 50 more. Mingling with newshawks on three platforms and watching at their leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees...
Returning to Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with...
...jury which included Amelia Earhart Putnam, Madam Secretary Perkins (who voted by mail from a catalog) and Professor John Dewey found most beautiful a section of spring, an outboard propeller, a ring of ball bearings. The voting public chose a larger propeller, a triple mirror, a metal measure...
...that his son was a traitor, had him put to death. Next he worked on Go Daigo's army with bribes. Finally in 1335 he set himself up as Shogun at Kamakura. Go Daigo, refusing to recognize him, fled south to Yoshino but remembered to take the sacred mirror of the Sun Goddess, the sacred jewel and the sacred sword-symbols of his right to reign. Takauji. well aware that his title of Shogun was empty as long as it lacked the sanction of a reigning descendant of the Sun Goddess, looked for a Puppet Emperor. By 1336 Japan...