Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kane painting. During the last two years of his life she spent two or three evenings a week in the cluttered Kane parlor, filling four big composition books with his reminiscences. A work of taste as well as devotion in its straightforward arrangement, Sky Hooks is as faithful a mirror of Kane's life as his painstaking pictures are of what...
Laboratory tests with discharge tubes containing air at low pressures, said Dr. Bailey, show that radio waves of gyro-frequency* would produce a strong glow in the ionosphere (electrified radio mirror) 60 or 70 miles up. The artificial display would be the same in fundamental principle (emission of light by electrically excited atoms) as natural auroras, or as the glow caused in neon lights by electric currents. The scientist pointed out that existing super-power installations, such as Cincinnati's 500-kilowatt WLW (see p. 66) or the Moscow station of equal power, were strong enough to induce glow...
...season he finds time to do wood carvings and carpentry and produce professional-looking landscape paintings. When the concert season is on he becomes a passion of punctuality, spends hours over his scores, rehearses and performs with demon-like energy. Each morning he solemnly practices his baton before a mirror...
...many years Cavendish has conducted research on the ionosphere (radio mirror surrounding Earth) by means of reflected radio signals. This work is in charge of Edward V. Appleton. generally considered the world's No. 1 authority on the ionosphere, who first discovered that the radio mirror consists of two or more shifting layers...
...world's biggest tabloid, Manhattan's daily News. This week blue-eyed Inez Robb, chic and peppy at 36 despite her greying hair, started on a brand new job as "roving reporter," covering U. S. and international high life for the rival New York Mirror and more than 100 other papers lined up by King Features Syndicate. First assignment : to survey the prospects for socialite Manhattan's winter "season." With the new job went a new by-line (her real name) and a whopping jump in pay (from about $175 a week...