Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RICHARD N. HOBSON Crystal Lake...
Through the grey streets early the following morning, a crowd walked behind the hearse to La Scala where 20,000 people were waiting. For two hours, housewives, dignitaries, workingmen, schoolboys, aged musicians filed through the gleaming foyer past the coffin lying in state under La Scala's crystal chandeliers. Then the visitors left and silently clustered about loudspeakers outside; inside the vast empty house, La Scala's 120-man orchestra played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica for its old master. Later, the coffin rested in the glow of candles and the glare of television...
Pure Spirit. Trappist Wiesinger's closely reasoned, footnote-fortified volume is a serious study of apparitions, demons, second sight, telepathy, witches, mediums, magic, radiaesthesia (divining), crystal gazing, hypnosis and diabolical possession. It is built upon a thesis which the author has constructed out of Thomist theology (the book carries the imprimatur) and depth psychology...
Theoretical studies told him that a speck of the proper kind of crystal, held in a magnetic field at a temperature close to absolute zero, should work as an almost noiseless amplifier. Naming the unborn device the Versitron, Dr. Strandberg predicted extraordinary powers for it. In electronic communication, the power of the transmitter might be cut to one-thousandth. The telescopes of radio astronomy might become so sensitive that astronomers would have to spend years digesting the records of a short observing period. No Versitron has been built, but Bell Telephone Laboratories, guided mainly by Dr. Strandberg's theories...
...Crystal Brawl. In Ipoh, Malaya, Fortune Teller Chung Kal Choon was fined $1.80 after he consulted Astrologer Kunju Rama, disagreed with the stargazer's predictions, beat...