Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Horace Gallup, the Iowa professor of journalism who developed public pulse-taking as an aid to advertisers, later as a mirror to newsreaders, a guide to politicians, last week reported that, of his pollees...
...sensuous space, serenity and golden sublimation, visitors could look on Titian's Lady at the Mirror. Across the room Veronese's Venus at her Toilet turned her opulent, cool and massive back. A pig-eyed, swollen-bellied little courtesan appeared in Lucas Cranach's delicately painted Nymph Reposing. From the 17th Century came a dusky Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs by France's great Nicolas Poussin. How nude painting became stage prettiness and erotic folderol in 18th-and early 19th-Century France was almost too amply demonstrated in pictures by Watteau, Boucher, Baudouin, Girodet and Prud...
...always a big social moment in Boston and the home towners might be offended. . . . His wind-up bears repeating, however: "These shows were originally presented for the entertainment of the Hasty Pudding in private. This is a custom which should be revived." Walter Winchell in the New York Daily Mirror...
...satellites according to Earth's distance from that planet. His calculation was only about 3% too high. First terrestrial measurement was made in 1849 by Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel. The light struck a mirror, bounced back to the wheel. The wheel had been timed to move just enough in the brief interim for the teeth of the wheel to intercept the light as it was reflected. By timing the revolutions per second of the cogwheel and measuring the distance to the mirror...
...late great Albert Abraham Michelson, in his final experiments, reflected light back & forth ten times in a mile-long vacuum tube from the faces of a rapidly spinning, 3 2-sided mirror. Velocity measurements completed by his successors after Michelson's death yielded an average figure of 186,270.75 miles per second. But in individual runs there were unexplained, periodic variations up to twelve miles a second. At first this caused excitement over possibility that the speed of light might not be constant (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). The clamor was quieted by attributing the variations to "experimental error...