Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the ward doing little jobs. When they were at one side of the ward, they needed something at the other. And there were so many nurses walking back and forth that I hardly saw the same one twice. And in the bathroom there was a pipe across the mirror at eye level...
Some 20 days later, Paxton's party reached the first settlement in Ladakh Province, on the Indian side of the Himalayas. But the worst day was still to come. At Kardang Pass the travelers faced a 400-foot glacier, slick as mirror-glass and tilted at a 45° angle. They dismounted and crept on foot up a narrow path hacked in the ice. Donkeys and horses had to be helped up the treacherous slope. Gallant Vincoe had come close to the end of her tether. The caravan cook encouraged her, step by step: "Put this foot here...
When the British government raised the lid on the newsprint ration last January, newspaper circulations soared, but none of the dailies rocketed to such stratospheric heights as the Sunday papers. The sexy, sensational Sunday Pictorial, weekend sister of Harry Guy Bartholomew's London Daily Mirror (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947), jumped 730,000, biggest gain for any British newspaper. By last week, the combined circulation of Britain's eleven national Sunday papers had hit an astounding 30 million copies a week...
...critics of the Sundays, 61-year-old Editor Arthur G. Waters of News of the World replies: "We are performing a great public service; we are a mirror of life. Doesn't the simple fact of our great circulation suggest the terrible demand of the average man to know just what his neighbors' next door are doing? [That many] million Englishmen can't be wrong...
Myths & Marvels. Every half-hour a small group of museum visitors was ushered into a gallery that had been made over to look like a gimcracked Victorian theater. The antique chandelier dimmed, and on stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy...