Word: crystalize
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...last Sunday Briggs and I discovered we're no oddsmakers. We stumbled upon our myopia as a steel-tempered sky burned into crystal-hung night. We went chasing jail-bait and missed our aim and slummed our way into Daniel and Gay's ceric world...
Many contributors had ideas for new kinds of vehicles: a personal trolley-auto advocated by Ronald Uher of Crystal Lake, Ill., for example, could either hook up to overhead electric trolley lines or run on its own power. Other suggestions focused on improving mass-transit finances. Several people proposed that municipal buses, trolleys and subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there...
...West Berlin, where he paid a visit to the city's Jewish Community Center. It stands on the site of what was once Berlin's Central Synagogue. All that remains of the original building is a chunk of wall. The rest was destroyed on the notorious "Crystal Night" of Nov. 9, 1938, when storm troopers savagely wrecked Jewish homes, synagogues and plate-glass ("crystal") shop windows. Before the war, 175,000 Jews lived in Berlin, but only 6,000 remain there today (with 27,000 in all of West Germany...
...devices are called quartz watches because instead of the standard balance wheel, they rely on an oscillating current in a small battery-charged quartz crystal. The current in turn powers a tiny integrated circuit, which emits pulses that regulate either standard minute and hour hands or a digital display. The watches are accurate to within a minute a year v. one to two minutes a week for standard models...
...time, some digital displays were dying out after a few weeks, which understandably inhibited sales, but manufacturers say that such kinks have been ironed out. Consumers now can buy either a display that must be switched on for viewing or a "liquid-crystal" display that remains constantly illuminated. For those willing to shell out at least $500, Ragen Precision Industries of New Jersey offers a no-battery "solar" powered model, which requires so little light for power that the manufacturer claims it will still be running after a year in a drawer...