Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down, in a wooden coffin, the diggers say they found the mummified body of a young girl, almost perfectly preserved. She must have been the daughter, wife or favorite of a man of consequence; her clothes, still in good condition, were rich with fur and ornaments. She had a mirror of polished silver alloy and golden jeweled earrings. Close at hand were primitive musical instruments. (These and the girl's unusually long and slender fingers suggested to one of the romantic, but not very scientific, diggers that she may have been a musician...
...before he was three, had earned the nickname Shien-seng (the master) by the time he was five. In his teens Hu became disillusioned, turned to gloomy poetry and carousing, awoke one morning in jail for assaulting a cop while soused. Looking at his scratched face in a mirror, Hu recalled a proverb ("Heaven intended this material surely for some use"), vowed to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to the U.S. He did, and went to Cornell...
...mirror spent the night in the little ranch town of Escondido, which was all agog at the honor. At 5 a.m. it began the last lap, up the twisting road to mile-high Mt. Palomar. The pace slowed to a crawl as two trucks pushed the trailer...
Near Mt. Palomar's forested upper slopes thick fog drifted over the road and hail hissed out of the clouds. The three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...
...astronomers, engineers and technicians thanked all the stars as they watched the mirror backed into the observatory. The case was opened. A crane lifted the precious freight over the threshold of the chamber under the dome, where the giant telescope, crouched on its massive supports, was waiting...