Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music, the house itself will be the major attraction. The façade remains practically the same. Inside, the building has been redecorated (in the old ivory, gold and red) and modernized: no gallery pillars to sit behind, earphones for back seats, air-circulation system concealed in the giant crystal chandelier. Part of the former imperial box now holds radio, TV and lighting controls. The new stage is the largest and best-equipped opera stage in the world. Complete sets can be rolled on, revolved, or lowered into a cavernous substage in a matter of minutes. Dressing rooms are wired...
...residence of the Czar's regent in Poland, the top Communist leaders of Russia's satellite states conferred with Premier Bulganin and Defense Minister Zhukov over a fistful of interlocking treaties for the Soviet Union's NATO-type organization in Eastern Europe. The meeting got the crystal-chandelier treatment, with all flags flying...
Actually, says DuBridge, science is merely one path to greater understanding. "Men climb Mt. Everest, explore the bottom of the sea, sail to the far corners of the earth, explore the atom, the crystal and the stars-all because they are born explorers . . . Are science and engineering just the tools for man's amusement and for his ultimate destruction? Let us say, rather-and more truthfully-that they are his ... tools in his eternal struggle to achieve his highest ... spiritual ends...
Well, Ted Williams' wife is still holding out for more alimony, and Mrs. Eisenhower had to spend Opening Day back on the farm at Gettysburg, but it looks like the 1955 baseball season has gotten started anyway. Which puts us in an embarrassing position, since we shattered our crystal ball last September after picking the Yankees and Dodgers to win the pennants, with the Indians fourth and the Red Sox second. But still we try again, using this time a burned-out light bulb that happens to be handy...
...None of us," said Ike, "possesses a crystal ball . . . To prophesy when a war is going to break out is to pretend-is to assume that we have an accuracy of information that, I think, has never yet been attained by a country that was to be attacked . . . The risk of war is always with us, and we have got to be vigilant. We have got to be careful . . . I do not believe that the peace of the world, the tranquillity of the world, is being served at this moment by talking too much in terms of speculation about such...