Word: corundum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gruner, 33, a Jew with a bullet-crushed jaw and the corundum-hard eyes of an Irgun Zvai Leumi triggerman, stood before a Jerusalem Military Court. He was charged with taking part in a raid against a British police station last April. Asked to testify, he defiantly refused: "I am a soldier fighting for Zionism; I should be treated as a prisoner of war." Gruner was sentenced to death as a murderer. But what happened in Palestine last week looked more like war than common murder...
...Tass, the Soviet news agency: an "everlasting" paint which its inventor, Russian Scientist Stepan Tumanov, says will resist the weather and keep its original fresh color for "thousands of years." Tumanov first made his paints of crushed jewels (rubies, emeralds, etc.), then substituted a cheaper material, colored corundum, which seemed to work just as well. He says his paint has passed all chemical and heat tests with high marks, expects it to be widely used by artists-especially makers of porcelain and stained glass and decorators of monuments...
...Corundum ....... 6,000 None...