Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairy queen who vanishes behind crystal doors, May might be a better name than Mary. And His Majesty does call Her Majesty "May." To all the world she was "Princess May," as many people have forgotten, until she became "Queen Mary...
...ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled, all for sale. To a man whose business career had been continually occupied with reorganizations and mergers, the appeal of such a show was instantaneous. As attorney for the late August Belmont shortly after the War, Mr. Harper...
...room is a vast hollow of jade, in multi-colors and multitudinous shapes. In another great room are glass cases on glass pedestals. In the cases and placed around the walls are his many-colored rock specimens. They all seem frozen in crystal. Near the ceiling runs a frieze composed of transparencies which show western mountain scenes in colors. Varying illumination behind the transparencies shows how the original scenes change in appearance from dawn to night...
...that Americans will soon liberate themselves from the dictatorship of Europe?cease to be incurable addicts of the copie d'anden. Architects and artists must some time realize the value of their aboriginal art, native flower of the American continent, and the only one which was created for its crystal-like sky, just as Gothic art was the flower created for the damp and delicate scenery of Ile-de- France...
...minute for a breath of damp air, peering into obscurity ahead, went Leo McGavic and Cecil Cutliff, guides, inching their way through the nether tortuosities of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. About a mile and a half from where Floyd Collins died (TIME, June 27. 1927), the two guides found a crystal "garden" with an area of 500 square feet, sparkling beneath their flashlights. The crystalline formation is low and level, apparently not formed by mineral-bearing water dripping from above, as is usually the case in limestone caves. It seems an underground erosion phenomenon. The "flowers" roughly resemble cabbages...