Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Republic: a dinner service and hand mirror for Queen Farida...
...diffuse than Antares, it is believed to have a temperature of only 1,000° C., lowest of any star known. Around the main body of the star is a shell of gas electrified by light from Epsilon Aurigae, in the same way that the electrified shell or "radio mirror" around earth is maintained by radiation from the sun. This phenomenon has never before been observed in a stellar atmosphere. Actually, Epsilon Aurigae's monstrous, almost transparent companion has not yet been seen or photographed. It was deduced from spectrographic observations made on Epsilon Aurigae. Its size, constitution...
...names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance at the rear-view mirror to see if a cop is overtaking them. There are few books that can tell them much about the country they travel. The last official U. S. Baedeker appeared in 1909. Written for European tourists, it contained such useful information as that carrying firearms was no longer necessary...
...volumes appeared, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." Said New York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild...
...steps by inventing the street mailbox as a convenient place for posting letters. As a novelist he saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close to the placid mediocrity of British life, he had a genuine ability to tell a story and to tell it with a sharp, shrewd bite...