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...either the radium or cyclotron bombardment of the diamonds, Dr. Berman explained, a short lived radioactive form of carbon is produced, together perhaps with some gas, like helium. The theory is that such gas molecules could become tightly lodged in the microscopic crevices of the diamond structure, and could impart the green color through a scattering of light rays...
When the radium-green diamonds, are heated, it is conjectured, the gas molecules bounces from the crevices and the diamond becomes white again. In the cyclotron-green diamonds the heating supposedly simply rearranges the gas particles in such a way as to impart the yellow-brown color. No way has yet been found of dispersing or changing the yellow-brown effect, Dr. Berman said...
...that particular engine, the feel of those particular gears, the tension of the tracks and bogie wheels (which keep the tank treads in line). Since his post, as tank commander, was in the turret and not at the steering levers when the tank was running, he had to impart this intimate information to a succession of new drivers. But he could never quite believe that anybody else could ever get to know his tank.¶ A cold, damp wind swept Fort Benning when Sergeant Pullen's tank rumbled into line with the rest of Company D and the 68th...
Skill in the use of the English language remains the hall-mark of an educated man. It is also about the most practical skill a college cab impart. Hence President Conant's avowal that everywhere "we hear complaints of the inability of the average Harvard graduate to write, either correctly of fluently," is not be silently shelved. As the "Times" stated recently, new influences of everyday life--the realistic but unrefined diction of the streets, the movies, the radio--have dulled American appreciation of good English. Harvard is facing the problem together with the rest of the country...
...knows the cause of facial neuralgia, but to relieve pain physicians some times inject alcohol into the tough, sinuous trigeminal (facial) nerve or sever its root. Neither of these treatments is satisfactory, however, for alcohol injections may give only transient relief, and a severed nerve may impart a slack, dead expression to one side of the face...