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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What penance may society exact from an Irish elevator-man who, disgruntled over his pay, gets drunk, steals and drinks a house holder's Canadian ale, gnaws the householder's baked ham, belabors the householder's crystal chandelier and mirrors with the ham bone and flings the ale bottles-not to mention ash trays, knives & bric a-brac-through the householder's high-priced canvases by Rubens and Van Dyck? For such deeds, causing $50,000 damage in the Fifth Avenue apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vandal Sentenced | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

prisms of black crystal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Word, the black crystal structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...dollars, the wrecking company which will raze Judge Gary's home to the ground to make way for a large co-operative apartment house, has decided to pound the marble staircase to pieces and dump the blocks into Long Island swamps. Two Tudor ceilings, a green lacquer and crystal tea room, marble and hardwood floors, will be similarly served. Three years went into the making of the Gary mansion. Thirty-six union working days will see its obliteration. The heavy bronze doors, however, will be saved-in the Metropolitan Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Staircase for Sale | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Rays. Several speeches set forth the new usefulness of X-rays in studying the crystal structures of pearls, limes, asbestos, butter, wax, etc. The X-ray studies of C. Norman Kemp in England on coal and coke cited, praised. X-raying of the structure of rubber, which is amorphous (noncrystalline) when unstretched and develops fibre-crystals when stretched at various tensions, was noted as a likely road to the discovery of how to make synthetic rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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