Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moves about. On the pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon, the other a Bible. The outline Billy never mentions but fleetingly consults; though each new sermon is rehearsed before a mirror, Graham's delivery is always convincingly ad lib. The Bible Billy mentions constantly: "The Bible says . . . Now don't get mad at me. Billy Graham didn't say it. The Bible says it." (The word "Bible" rolls up from Billy's diaphragm and out over the audience like a thunderclap...
...little girls, Pressman Toy Corp. has a vanity table with ruffled plastic skirt, which comes complete with bench, mirror, comb & brush, and perfume atomizer...
...telescope, which looks like an ordinary instrument without the mirror, receives radiations from free hydrogen of wave lengths of from 1 mm, to ten meters in length. According to Shapley, radio-astronomy is an entirely new and important field, in which British, Dutch, and French astronomers, as well as those of this country, are working...
...Earth Trembles. In doing so, the texts painted a complete picture of the Egyptian universe. The sky was heaven, personified as the goddess Nut, who was sometimes pictured as arched over the earth. But heaven was also a mirror of the earth, had islands, rivers, marshes and palaces, and was peopled by gods who showed themselves as stars. Each mortal, the Egyptians believed, had his double in heaven, and after death his spirit went forth to join the heavenly double. But the journey upwards was apparently a precarious one, and the burial texts attempted to take every precaution...
...ancient, half-ruined village of Mont Louis in the French Pyrenees, a great, flat mirror, nearly 40 ft. on a side, stares all day at the sun, turning automatically. Facing it is a parabolic mirror almost as big, into which the flat mirror throws reflected sunlight. The combination acts as a gigantic burning glass which can melt 130 Ibs. of iron in an hour. The fierce spot of concentrated sunlight can bore holes through aluminum oxide (the material used to line electric furnaces...