Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple X-ray method for determining the location of the layers of atoms in a crystal of metal has been devised by Alden B. Greninger, a student in the Graduate School of Engineering at Harvard University...
...technique now developed by Mr. Greninger, all problems involving cubic crystals may be solved with only one photograph, which can be taken in two or three hours and interpreted in a few minutes. The new method has its greatest usefulness in the study of materials which are opaque to X-rays, as are most metallic crystals. In most of these crystals the plane surfaces of the atoms lying in regular pattern diffract the X-rays within a relatively thin surface layer of the crystal. The method invented by Mr. Greninger is a variation of the method devised by Max Laue...
With the birth of Tennessee Valley Authority and other New Deal power projects, President Roosevelt acquired an additional host of distinguished enemies. Last week he added a few more, making it crystal clear that he proposed to run his power lines by the same old sights. The occasion was a peace offer made by the public utility industry in the person of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Mr. McCarter went to the White House to present a formal memorial to the President. Excerpts...
Muir's own corneas became opaque after a doctor spilled an anesthetic on them. Dr. Thomas located a hopelessly blind woman whose useless corneas were crystal clear and who was willing to give them to Mrs. Muir. Dr. Thomas peeled the corneas from the eyes of both women, ingeniously tied the clear corneas on Mrs. Muir's bare eyeballs. After a fortnight she could see again...
...bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian for $470), was a walnut and gold-leaf player piano (to Mrs. John K. Jasper; $1,325), a matching walnut cabinet for music rolls (to Mrs. Victor Schutte; $87.50). A rose and ivory French hand-piled rug was appraised at $8,000, sold...