Word: reflectors
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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...
Mimno will soon finish building a parabolic steel reflector in Lexington. Bigger than the average House living-room, the reflector will aim radio waves as an automobile headlight aims light rays...
Dish. A microwave reflector...
Neutrons can be reflected by layers of materials (such as graphite) that bounce them back without absorbing them. A good reflector turns back as much as 90% of the neutrons hitting...
...several occasions during the hearings, John Lewis had had to reassert the majesty of his person. On Wednesday, when a cameraman tried to take his picture he swung his cane and dented the cameraman's reflector. On Friday, when a bailiff had the temerity to tell him to take off his hat as he stalked back into Judge T. Alan Goldsborough's court after lunch, he simply ignored the fellow. He removed his coat, folded it with exaggerated care. When he was good & ready, he took off his large hairy black hat and sat glaring in front...