Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary electron tube, electrons "boil" off a heated filament into a high vacuum. There, unhampered by clogging air, they dance around obediently in response to electrical forces provided to act upon them. A transistor has no filament or vacuum, only a speck of hard germanium cut from a silvery crystal. But the mobile electrons are there, flashing through the empty channels between the ordered atoms of the crystal fragment...
...lecture hall, and chemical laboratories. But Chemistry Departments inmates clammored for more space and in 1871, the University raised Boylston's roof to construct a third floor for more laboratories. When growing pains produced a glass-roofed extension of the basement, students referred to the addition as the "Crystal Palace...
...year 1923 marked a low in Boylston's reputation when a committee of Harvard graduates said that "its present state of dilapidation is almost beyond belief." But only five years later, Boylston was completely renovated. The University bindery moved into the "Crystal Palace" from Widener (where it was a fire Menace), the History I library was installed, and newly-constructed stacks held most of the present Chinese-Japanese library...
...Fact Man. His fiercest prejudice was against writing that was not crystal clear. In its Profiles, Reporter at Large, Talk of the Town, etc., Ross insisted on knowing everything about the subject and the people, right down to their blood pressure. On the margins of manuscripts he scrawled scores of choleric questions and comments: "Who he," "What's that," "Don't think," "File and Forget." He never rewrote a piece himself, but his marginal scrawls often ran almost as long as the article. Another prejudice-against the traditional two-line* "he & she" cartoon-led to the one-line...
...word got around, crowds streamed into the Crystal Palace to see the painting. Sanchez Bella, organizer of the Biennale, tried to look pleased. Said he: "At the Biennale we even have Picasso's Soviet dove." Said Artist Perceval, sweating, after a long talk with the police: "The dove is not Soviet. It is just a poor little dove who lives in the patio of my home...