Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year for experimentally demonstrating the wave nature of electrons. Some years ago, Astronomer Francois Charles Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal a 2,000-inch mirror telescope - ten times bigger than the 200-inch giant now being erected on a California mountain...
...doesn't quite dare with such an inquisitive visitor making the rounds of his belongings. The winged lancer squares off on the desk calendar and snorts contemptuously at a picture of the Vagabond's best girl. Bored, he revs up his motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger to full length and charges the bed in a blind rage. The Vagabond retreats under the covers...
...makes an experimental receiving set which projects into a slanting mirror a greenish, almost lineless image 7½ in. tall by 10 in. wide. And NBC has a transmitter on top of Manhattan's Empire State Building which has telecast more than 40 miles. However, no big U. S. radio group wants to get into commercial television until the purchaser may be assured that his set will not be obsolescent for a reasonable period of time, and until television shows can command fuller attention than sound radio now gets. Well aware that the technical side of television presents...
Despite these handicaps, Hall won the event with a score of 23. Harry F. Hinckley '40 was second with 25. The low scores of several entrants in this event bore evidence of their inability to hold both wavering gun and wobbling mirror steady at the same time...
...MIRROR TO GENEVA - George Slocombe-Holt ($3). Expert characterizations of such League of Nations heroes as Briand, Stresemann, Eden, written with the polite air of a chairman introducing the speakers of the evening...