Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knockabout. Smallest (6 ft., 1 ½ in.) of five sons of a Finnish miner in Crystal Falls, Mich., Emil Hurja had left home at 16, hoboed his way West. He had sampled his luck in Butte, Mont., Yakima, Wash., Fairbanks, Alaska and Seattle, worked as a grocer's delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska...
From Stephen Royce in Crystal Falls, Mich. President Roosevelt last week received a long letter. Excerpts...
Upon being told by the nearest British civil servant, he exclaimed, "Indeed! Do you actually inform me that that is the inkstand of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? I am accustomed to a silver and crystal inkstand. This appears to be of braass and glaass...
...other substances found in living tissues. Now that thousands of organic compounds have been synthesized, it is chemical custom to call "organic" any compound, however formed, that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated in the form of crystals a virus which causes a plant disease called tobacco mosaic. The virus seems to consist of a protein molecule with a molecular weight of several million units. In most respects it is not alive; the crystal structure, for example, is typical of inanimate materials such as metal. But when...
...Premier of Czechoslovakia has been for many years a man whose name few European statesmen ever bother to remember, they never can get out of their minds Dr. Eduard Benes, quick as a squirrel, lucid as crystal, clever as the Devil, virtuous as the League of Nations and famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...