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Word: mirroring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtrusive as possible, jumped on production cost to $1,2000,000. When the scene opens on a nasty London night, Technicolor sets the mood with blinking Bovril and Schweppe signs through a dank yellow fog. When Actor Laurence Olivier discovers a sprightly message daubed on his hotel-room mirror, the audience can see at a glance that it was written with Actress Oberon's lipstick. In the country, horses, dogs and gentry chasing across light-bathed landscapes are hunting prints in motion. As scientifically suspect as the theory that the waters of the Liffey make the best stout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

About one child in ten is a "strephosymbolic" (twister of symbols). He tends to see or remember things backwards. Most common form of this peculiarity is to read was for saw. Other strephosymbolics are "mirror writers," who write backwards, from right to left. This phenomenon still baffles psychologists. Most widely accepted theory is that of famed Psychopathologist Samuel Torrey Orton of Manhattan. He holds that reading & writing are controlled by one side of the brain. Normally one cerebral hemisphere is dominant, but when that is not the case, the brain may picture an image in reverse, cause the individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Upside Down Writer | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...mirror which will not blur in a steamy bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder's speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science v. Speeders | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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