Word: patternless
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Still more significant was his new theory of the nature of that framework. When molten glass is allowed to cool slowly enough to crystallize, it loses its transparency. Cooled more rapidly, it remains clear. So science has assumed that it is amorphous, a patternless collection of molecules, constituting a sort of stiffened liquid. In fact the classic definition of glass is "a liquid whose rigidity is great enough to enable it to be put to certain useful purposes." Dr. Pincus believes that the structure of glass is neither amorphous nor crystalline but somewhere between, with its atoms symmetrically arranged...
...Author Vardis Fisher, long somberly enraptured (in Children of God, etc.) with the whole sprawling, patternless vigor of U.S. westward expansion, Virginia City and its characters are tasty raw meat. But City of Illusion is written as a novel, and in it Author Fisher has recaptured the vitality of U.S. legend as well as U.S. history...