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...British press, glumly conditioned to watching U.S. boxers flatten Britain's best, crowed with delight. Bragged the Daily Mirror: "Turpin became world champion without any of the hokum that Americans have used to bedazzle and bamboozle their opponents before the fight." London's anti-American, middlebrow New Statesman and Nation felt a primitive thrill: "The local boy from Leamington Spa became the giant-killer and we all felt bigger and better in consequence . . . Europe had risen from the gutter and thrashed the Prince of the Dollar Empire ... Morale rises ... Even the Government becomes our Government...
Ayrton's best work concerns "the greatest human tragedy, the failure to communicate." In Mirror Image, a young man stares at a silent girl whose unhappy face is reflected in a mirror over his shoulder...
...Green. The 200-inch Palomar telescope was built primarily for studying more distant nebulae. It can photograph them as faint blurs at distances something like one billion lightyears, but getting their spectra is more difficult. The light from the nebula is concentrated by the telescope's great mirror upon a prism, which spreads it into a spectrum one-tenth of an inch long. So dim is the image on the photographic plate that four to six hours of exposure are needed to make the picture...
Even during his lifetime Major Byron couldn't fool everybody every time. When England got too hot, the major lit out for Paris or the U.S. The editor of New York's Evening Mirror sized him up at first glance in 1849: "We turned from him with the natural disgust we feel for humbugs in general, and literary humbugs in particular." When the major sued for libel and lost, he went back to London, but in 1861 he popped up again in St. Louis in the uniform of a major in the Federal army. Though Major Byron does...
Though Yale continued to grow in size and merit, it sometimes seemed to do so reluctantly. The years of the late 19th Century were boom years for U.S. higher education, when the U.S. university began not only to mirror but to rival the great universities of Europe. It was in the age of the mighty autocrat, Charles Eliot of Harvard, that American scholarship finally came into...