Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Professor Armstrong built himself a 400-ft. tower on the Hudson River Palisades at Alpine, N. J.. began sending out experimental frequency-modulated programs. In a few experimental receivers they came in crystal clear, in every kind of weather. From the tower at Alpine the reception range is about 100 miles...
More attractive, although on the pretty-pretty side, are the girls in Living Magazine Covers. Eye-catching are: 1) Rosita Royce's dance with live doves at the Crystal Palace, which ends in purple shadows and a lightning-quick strip; 2) the Crystal Lassies show, where, one at a time, semi-nude girls do semi-classical dances in a domelike hall of mirrors which reflects their images a thousand times over & over...
...restless, wasp-waisted artist with his whimsical mustache and eyes of an old crystal-gazer declared last week that for him the period of Surrealist dream-documentation was about over, the period of Paranoiac painting just beginning. Example: The Image Disappears, a painting which is at once a Vermeer-like Young Girl Reading a Letter, and a beady-eyed portrait of a bearded...
...rarely are the crystal springs of Henry Purcell's music tapped. There is a great feast of choral, instrumental, and harpsichord music which is never served to moderns except in isolated events such as the Lowell House production of the opera-play, "King Arthur." And this is in spite of his unquestioned genius: of the simple and dignified charm of all his works, of the amazingly conceived and thrillingly beautiful harmonic progressions which could be surpassed only by those of J. S. Bach...
...Rotch Building, headquarters of Harvard's metallurgy studies, may be seen the new election bombardment furnace, new metallographs for studying the crystal structure of metals, and the new materials-testing laboratory. In the new furnace, which utilizes the stream of electrons to make intense heats, such metals as irridium, platinum, and platinum have been melted with heats ranging up to 4500 degrees Fahrenheit...