Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French used to say, pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...
...once a man's conspicuous mark of distinction in Karachi streets, are now hidden away in garages, and one businessman even painted his fire-engine-red station wagon a dull grey, happy to have it no longer "an eye-catcher." A strolling policeman no longer accepts the gratuitous glass of iced sherbet from the street vendor, under pain of prosecution for them both if he does. Office "peons" no longer demand "tea money" for leading callers to officials. Karachi's once-flourishing café society stays home, has abandoned the nightclubs to foreigners. As one businessman...
...picture gallery has long been public, but now on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, between 11 o'clock and noon, visitors are admitted to a whole succession of magnificent rooms in which every perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent witness to the natural expectations of a Doria-Pamphili heir: carved on the base are a bishop's staff, a doge...
Alvarez' first model was all glass and only 2 in. in diameter. When it worked, he gradually increased his chambers to 2 in., 4 in., 10 in., and each step multiplied the difficulties until the laboratory blossomed with safety devices. Yet the 10 in. chamber spotted tricks of Bevatron particles that might have been missed by years of work with more primitive instruments-and only whetted Alvarez' desire for more...
Last week, in trial runs with a pi meson beam, the whole weird contraption worked precisely. And over the glass cover, a stereoscopic camera takes pictures of meson tracks every twelve seconds, gathering 1,000 times more information for U.S. science than with the most sophisticated of earlier instruments...