Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debye has done powerful work on the conduction of electricity by salt solutions, the electrical properties of insulators, the heat capacities of solids, the atomic architecture of molecules. He was one of four men who turned the crystal diffraction grating invented by Max von Laue into a precise instrument which, by combing X-rays through the atomic lattice in the crystal, determines the composition of a mixture as exactly as by chemical analysis. In Pittsburgh last September Chemist Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely...
...Russia, three years prior, had come one Serge Stchoukine, an immensely wealthy Muscovite whose fortune came from importing the one luxury that rag-wrapped moujiks would not do without: tea. Tea Tycoon Stchoukine had bought the 18th Century Troubetzkoy Palace, filled its rococo halls with gilded French furniture and crystal chandeliers. He also had an instinctive appreciation of what the younger French artists were trying to do. In Paris he bought the Fayet collection of Gauguins outright, bought one canvas from Henri Matisse. He liked it. In 1906 he was back in Paris for more Matisse pictures, but his walls...
Super-Secrets. The office of whoever happens to be French Finance Minister is in the vast Palace of the Louvre at the end of interminable marble stairs. With its walls of red & gold, its enormous twinkling crystal chandeliers and its delicate and beautiful antique furniture, it resembles nothing so much as the boudoir of a Royal courtesan. In this setting last week heavy Radical Socialist Finance Minister Vincent Auriol, whose right eye droops half shut behind his tortoise-shell glasses, received correspondents in the dead of night. He had left President Lebrun and Premier Blum soon after midnight...
...last week when Michigan counted its primary ballots the New Deal suffered two defeats. The first, utterly inglorious, involved Emil Hurja, Democratic Boss Farley's No. 1 assistant, who was disfranchised when the election board at Crystal Falls discovered that his absentee ballot was improperly witnessed. The second New Deal defeat was that one of the scant 23 Republicans now in the U. S. Senate definitely lost his chance of returning there. He was James Couzens, who made his millions as a onetime Ford partner and his reputation for independence as a longtime (since 1922) Senator...
...cortin, secreted by the suprarenal glands. Cortin maintains the potassium, sodium and urea balance of the blood; without it man develops Addison's disease and dies. Last week the Mayo researchers announced isolation of a pure crystalline substance which seems to be a close cousin of cortin. The crystal molecule contains 21 atoms of carbon, 28 of hydrogen, five of oxygen. It seems to have the same effect on animals as impure concentrations of the natural hormone, although more of the crystals are required...