Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked the poll, was the greatest statesman in all history? As the German weekly, Der Spiegel (literally The Mirror), totted up the returns last week, they provided an enlightening glimpse into that enigma, the collective German mind. Though they may have been chastened, the Germans had lost none of their admiration for strong men. Top place (with 3,937 out of 8,500 votes) went to Germany's first Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who once bragged that the great problems of history are solved by blood & iron. Next, with 773 votes, came Winston Churchill, who had helped to break...
Astronomer Edwin Hubble told last week how he went to Palomar in January to put the great telescope through its paces. He knew already that the giant mirror and the intricate mechanism supporting it were good enough for nights when the "seeing" is only ordinary. On such nights the perfection of a telescope's performance is limited by irregularities in the air. Hubble wanted to try the great telescope on one of the rare nights (about 15 a year) when the stars hardly twinkle at all, and astronomers rejoice...
Optical experts know that the 200-inch Palomar mirror, even though it works well now, can work even better after a delicate repolishing of its outer ten inches. The great telescope will not start on its real program of charting the outer universe until it is as perfect as scientific skill can make it. The world's astronomers, impatient for news from a billion light-years away, do not mind waiting a little longer...
Leads & Eyes. If so, the News editors weren't the only ones. In his weekly Mirror column, veteran (65) Editor Jack Lait put a finger on one trouble with postwar journalism. "The emphasis on 'leads' . . . seems to have largely evaporated," he wrote. "In my journalistic salad days reporters sweated to create dramatic, amusing or literary leads ... It was a problem of clutching the reader by the throat, quick, and giving it to him while his eyes bulged...
...show what he meant, Mirror Editor Lait clutched his readers by the throat in the first paragraph of a spicy divorce story...