Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inch mirror was cast by Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y., and ground to within one-millionth of an inch of the mathematically correct curve by Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co., which also built the telescope tube, mounting and drive mechanism. The site selected was Mt. Locke, 6,791 feet above sea level, 225 miles southeast of El Paso...
...southwestern Texas, Astronomer Struve. already director of the University of Chicago's famed Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, took on an additional job: he officially accepted the directorship of the University of Texas' new McDonald Observatory, which houses the second largest operating telescope in the world. Its mirror is 82 inches across, just under seven feet...
Yerkes has the world's biggest refractor (a telescope equipped with a lens instead of a mirror) but it is only 40 inches in diameter. For years Struve has pined for a big reflector. One day he walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became...
...Paul Joseph Goebbels came a symposium of German movies from 1910 to 1939. Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley presented a Volkswagen, the cheap German-manufactured car not yet available to the public. For the Reichsbank Dr. Walther Funk gave a version of Titian's Venus at the Mirror which official Germany now accepts (although many art critics do not) as one of two authentic originals of this painting...
There he lives in two remodeled stables which express his character. Their antique furniture is sober, solid, sleek. The décor is dashing-glass bricks instead of windows, great expanses of mirror, an occasional ultramodern doodad. Evidence of Whalen the businessman is tactfully absent. But Whalen the civic leader shows in prints of old New York, Whalen the horseman in a framed blue-ribbon, Whalen the family man in a group shot of his attractive wife and three children. And the gadgets display the Whalen flair for imaginative showmanship. Each step in one flight of stairs is a drawer...