Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Human. In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, as afraid as the next man of going to a dentist's office, Dentist Ptolemy Corbiere sat down and, guided by a hand-mirror, extracted his own upper rear molar...
...executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual of the second drink. Then he has to go to the men's room and she has to go to the ladies room, and when they return, the argument has lost its tone. And the fan takes over again, and the heat...
...half of deliberation about the Dean's Office's proposals has come up with a set of its own, differing from the first more in organization than in content. Regardless of which set gets the final nod, the rules will be long, they will be detailed, and they will mirror the policy of the last three years, during which undergraduate activities have been subjected to far more supervision and restriction than ever before in the history of Harvard College...
...mirrors are arranged so that red light from the red tube is reflected to the eye of the viewer from the red-reflecting mirror (see diagram). Blue light from the blue tube is reflected by the blue-reflecting mirror, but passes through the red-reflecting mirror to the eye. Green light from the green tube is not reflected at all. It reaches the eye direct. The viewer sees the three pictures superimposed so that they blend to form a full-color picture...
Next step is to combine the three colored images in the eye of the viewer. The combining is done with two "dichroic mirrors": plates of glass with one surface covered with a thin layer of a colorless, transparent substance. Because of the special way in which this combination affects light of different wave lengths, each mirror reflects only one color. The other two colors pass right through...