Word: crystalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve crystal plates engraved with Audubon birds from U.S. Ambassador and Mrs. Douglas...
When it has forcibly conveyed its contentions and backed them with visible support, an organized alumni group for a Student Activities Center should make crystal-clear its willingness to help raise cash as well as to wait several years if necessary for the proper opportunity for such a drive. Above all its stand must be respectful while firm enough to prevent the planned expenditure of $200,000 for a tablet-motif memorial from going forward...
...equally to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and her favorite brand of unscented soap. She detested "Bohemianism, quaintness, affectation, whimsy, and-above all-effeteness." In art she tried to live up to her favorite Chinese maxim: "One should draw as if engraving a slab of rock crystal with a diamond point...
Star sapphires, which have a brilliant, six-pointed star, are more difficult to imitate. Their "asterism" comes from minute particles of some foreign matter (some authorities claim that it is empty space) arranged symmetrically throughout the crystal structure. These form a slight cloudiness (jewelers call it "silk") which reflects light in the shape of a star...
...Donelli-one move!" exclaimed the Oriental savant as he Felt for his crystal Boyle. "If Pierce that we will have a Holler a game and I Gallagher down to work and Figueira winner...