Word: crystalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resplendent Senate committee room, marble-pillared and hung with crystal chandeliers, sat a group of bored Senators. Some studied the lofty ceiling, some doodled, some blinked at the witnesses who were still parading before them after four long weeks. Every once in a while, like snapping turtles at sight of a bug, they stretched out their necks to snap and gobble...
...Streptomycin still looks like the most promising foe of tuberculosis, but Dr. Alfred Marshak of the U.S. Public Health Service found another likely-looking one: a yellow crystal extracted from California Spanish moss (not to be confused with the lacy Spanish moss that hangs from trees). It checks T.B. in guinea pigs, has still to be tested...
Mineralogy 6b. Crystal Chemistry. Half-course (spring term). Two lectures and three to five laboratory hours a week. Associate Professor Frondel...
...ment Republican-Populaire) made an extraordinary impression at Cleveland-perhaps because he is so young (35) to be a serious contender for the French presidency, perhaps because his appearance and personality so well symbolized his nation's present position. A threadbare grey jacket covered his hunched shoulders; the crystal of his wrist watch was shattered, the frame of his hornrimmed glasses was broken; he looked 20 Ibs. underweight. Yet he was vigorous, concise-and interesting. He said...
...though Hokusai died at 89. He left behind him thousands of haunting, crystal-clear landscapes which illustrated poems scrawled across their skies...