Word: reflector
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...called "The Speaker," "A One" and such), it has a chorus and a musical background, the audience is expected to join in and repeat certain lines. The ostensible topic of discussion is a crashed airman who is on the verge of death, but Brecht merely uses him as a reflector for his ideas about death, man's place on earth, and his relationship to modern technology. The tone of the piece is didactic...
Keeping an eye on the stars for navigation purposes is an old Navy custom. Last week the Navy announced that it has nearly completed a radio telescope to watch stars in another way. The reflector, an aluminum "dish" 50 feet in diameter and weighing 14 tons, is supported by a mounting made for a 5-in. gun. It will watch the sky from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington...
September. In Norwalk, Ohio, Mrs. E. M. Potter placed a classified advertisement in the Norwalk Reflector-Herald: "Notice to the Curious-Car parked in driveway at 9 Jefferson Sunday belonged to relatives from Akron...
Inside Story. In Norwalk, Ohio, Mrs. E. M. Potter placed a classified advertisement in the Norwalk Reflector-Herald: "Notice to the Curious-Car parked in driveway at 9 Jefferson Sunday belonged to relatives from Akron...
Long before its Tennessee twin was familiar to anyone save connoisseurs of mountain music and residents, Oak Ridge in Massachusetts was a well-known place. for there, on a hill overlooking the town of Harvard, stands the biggest of the University's chain of Observatories, boasting the largest reflector telescope cast of the Mississippi River. Begun in 1932, the station now has 13 buildings, centered in a 50-acre tract, and instruments ranging in size from the "patrol cameras" to the giant 61-inch reflector...