Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Locw's presents two pictures of average merit by M. G. M. "The Bad Man of Brimstone," with Wallace Beery in the title role, is sort of a western a la mode, with sepia platinum filming as its only outstanding characteristic. The hot wastes of Arizona look well in this medium, as does Virginia Bruce, always more reminiscent of the rotogravure debutante than of the prairie mother. Yet if her striking coiffe and general showgirl demeanor make Miss Bruce an anachronism in any western, Mr. Beery, who has a way of making homicide seem unimportant, is also miscast...
...furnace, such metals as vanadium, titanium, columbium, zirconium, and the platinum group, which have been difficult to study because of their very high melting points, can be melted into very pure alloys. Then, through X-ray photographs, significant students can be made of the individual peculiarities of molecular structure and other physical characteristics...
...experimental tests Dr. Hultgren has successfully molted iridium at 4230 degrees Fahrenheit; platinum at 3200 degrees; and pallodium at 2790 degrees. Ruthenium was heated to 440 degrees Fahrenheit and "sintered" a little but did no melt...
...concert halls for people who buy tickets to listen to them; the best jazz is made up on the spur of the moment, belongs in the jam session or the dance hall. Last week in Philadelphia's mid-Victorian Academy of Music, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, under platinum-blond Maestro Leopold Stokowski, jiggled and swayed, did their best to lose their educated musician's sense of discipline, tried embarrassingly to get hot. The result was pretty tepid, but not their fault. William Grant Still, Negro composer of the Afro-American Symphony, had asked for it by writing...
...what projectile was used, what energy, how quickly the artificial radiation subsides, what it consisted of. In altering atomic structures, Dr. Lawrence has even created a few atoms of gold, thus technically at least realizing the old dream of the alchemists. But the raw material for this transmutation was platinum, and the few gold atoms were not worth a fraction of the energy used in manufacturing them, although the electric current necessary to run the cyclotron for an hour costs only $1.50. "Anyway," as Lawrence remarks with a grin, "the information we are getting is worth more than gold...