Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Steuben (rhymes with "new Ben") Glass Inc. last week showed off its 16 new designs for the fall and winter trade. Recessed into the store's grey, black and white walls, or set out on square pedestals and tables, the glassware ranged from a chubby crystal mug ($8.50) to a graceful three-tiered waterless fountain...
...customers a year, including Trygve Lie, the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman, who has sent Steuben ware as gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Wilhelmina (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). Seventeen U.S. museums display Steuben's glass, which ranks among the finest, most expensive crystal glassware in the world...
...Ambition. Curt LeMay's fierce single-purpose first showed itself back in high school in Columbus, Ohio. Boyhood friends recalled that he paid girls little attention, preferred to spend his leisure building crystal "wireless" sets or prowling through the hills of southern Ohio with a gun and a bowie knife...
Water, reasoned Vonnegut, forms hexagonal ice crystals with well-known characteristics. If another hexagonal crystal could be found with nearly the same characteristics, the water molecules in the air might be fooled into building up on it as if it were a genuine ice nucleus...
Emergency Supplies. In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Olga Muse filed suit against her ex-husband Joseph to recover 14 cans of fish, one elastic stocking, five boots, one crystal ball...