Word: jaded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes Mother Nature some millions of years, by a combination of extreme heat and pressure to produce rocks, minerals and other hard things. Science is doing the same thing now in a few hours. Granite and jade have been made synthetically in a single working day at the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. The substances known to be contained in the mineral desired are poured into a small platinum tube sealed with solid gold, which is placed in a "bomb" of the finest steel, along with a small electric furnace made of rubies. Heat...
...RAIN-A jade is called a jade together with other interestingly unprintable synonyms. Jeanne Eagels is the recipient of the epithets; her surroundings are the South Seas...
...hundred sons to keep your life extant." "In that case," remarked the patriarch, "your troubles are only just beginning . . ." and the story ends. The stories told by Kai Lung in his golden hours-fantastic, urbane, ironic, witty, courteous, magical- -these stories, naturally, are the substance of the book-jade emblems strung on a cord of Chinese silver, emblems marked with enchanted characters. The Significance. Kai Lung's Golden Hours is not a book to read at a sitting with breathless excite ment-it is a book to be dipped into and laid aside and dipped into again, and always...
...well, 150 feet across and 70 feet deep, used by the Maya religious cults. In the mud at the bottom of this well have been found human skeletons - the most beautiful maidens were hurled to death here at annual festivals to propitiate the rain gods - and extraordinary relics of jade, mosaics, pottery, weapons, balls of copal- offerings brought to this Mecca by pilgrims from all over the Mayan world...
...placed in the cases in the Ross corridor are a Chinese bowl of rare delicacy and beauty, dating from the Lung period; four Persian tiles and two fragments of Persian pottery; four pieces of Chinese carved agate dating probably from the XVIII century; and a Chinese sceptre probably of jade, and dating also from the XVIII century...