Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California, near Mount Wilson's 100-incher. Two factors delay Caltech: 1) Dr. Elihu Thomson of General Electric does not yet see his way toward making the necessary fused quartz disk which will be nearly as wide as a two-story building is high; nor has any other mirror-builder come forward with a sound plan for building the vast platter; 2) Caltech must wait until the securities which it owns appreciate in income and market value before spending large sums...
...disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache in a portable mirror while puffing a stogie. The retiring president asks him to throw away the cigar. Groucho Marx casts a look at the faculty of Huxley and says: "There'll be no diving for this cigar." He goes on puffing. Carried away by his own address to the students, he breaks...
...never surprising to see a failing newspaper die. But last week a paper which had gained consistently in circulation and advertising since its owners acquired it last year, was put out of existence. The paper was the Detroit tabloid Mirror which Publishers McCormick & Patterson of the Chicago Tribune had taken from Bernarr Macfadden in part payment for Liberty, and upon which they had spent money lavishly...
...charge of the Mirror as publisher was Max Annenberg, hardboiled oldtime circulation wrangler for both McCormick and Hearst in Chicago. With his son, Ivan, as circulation manager, he shouldered the Mirror's circulation from 50,000 up to an average of 110,000 daily, 150,000 Saturday, for the six months ending last March. A spring drive boosted the figure close to 200,000 in June, ahead of the Free Press, only other morning paper in Detroit. At the finish last week it was about...
Only last May the Mirror boasted a larger advertising gain for the month than any other U. S. daily. Its gain for the first half of this year, as compared to the same period last year was 608,325 lines. All other Detroit sheets had losses...