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Word: crystalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring cheer: "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everybody for the Farm Bureau stand up and holler-Yeah!" They cheered again when he lambasted Charlie Brannan's plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rustle in the Grass Roots | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Puerto Rico's historic capital of San Juan busily prepared for a fiesta. At Governor Muñoz Marin's mansion, servants made ready for a party, washing the fine crystal, putting a high polish on the silverware. On traffic-jammed Ponce de León Avenue stood a huge welcome sign: Bien-venidos. In the plaza, the excited chatter was all about the opening this week of Puerto Rico's finest hotel, which islanders hope will be a rich new source of revenue and prestige for their economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...handsomest egg in last week's show was carved out of rock crystal. Inside it was a golden tree, and perched in the tree was a peacock which, when removed and placed on a table, strutted, turned its head, and folded and unfolded its fanlike emerald tail. The last Fabergé egg to be presented to the Czarina (in 1916) was prophetically grim: made of blackened steel and poised on four bits of shrapnel, it contained only a miniature painting of the Czar and Czarevitch Alexis with staff generals on the Eastern front. Two years later the imperial family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Imperial Eggs | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Clouded Crystal. In Philadelphia, Judge Harry S. McDevitt asked how Mrs. Dorothy Stevens, arrested for fortunetelling, went about it, released her when her lawyer answered: "She doesn't do it very well. If she could, she wouldn't be here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Each and every crystal of the 1,000,000,000 to the fifth power that fell last night (three to four inches) was hexagonal, the University disclosed last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Slips In on Little Cat Feet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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