Word: topaz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Departure. Lady Drummond Hay: "We passed from a symphony of silver to golden glory as the lights of New York City scattered themselves beneath us like grains of golden Stardust, tracing patterns strange and fantastic, set with the jewelled brilliancy of ruby, emerald and topaz electric signs...
...twelve years thereafter. U. S. chemists have since corrobated the green effect in radiumized diamonds. Dr. Field is first to announce a blue-white effect. Other experiments with radium have turned pink synthetic sapphires red or orange; a white sapphire yellow; blue sapphires gray or brownish green; a colorless topaz to amber's color...
...their names in print, or by a garretful of earnest intellectuals whose desire it is to break a lance for any forlorn cause and die if they can-or at least starve-on the barricade of some well fought for hope. The magazines are published in amazing covers of topaz and mauve and cinnamon. Braver than autumn leaves, they flourish for a while, bailiffs occupy the editorial rooms and grubby gentlemen attach the furniture, and the gay little magazines dry up and perish...
...Manhattan ballroom, which had been chartered for the 21st Annual Automobile Salon, stood some 100 of the cars of the more expensive manufacturers equipped with various body-designs which will define the trend of the new year's elegance: Bodies that reproduced in lustre-lacquers the garnet, topaz, turquoise, sapphire, chalcedony, beryl, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, agate, carnelian, porphyry, opal, and the tinctures of those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green...
From the Bureau of Standards simultaneously comes evidence of a different nature. The demonstration involved the weighing of topaz and diamond crystals in certain positions in relation to the axis of the earth. The experiments were in charge of Dr. Paul R. Heyl. Under the Newtonian theory of gravitation, the crystals would vary in weight in certain positions. This Einstein denied, and Dr. Heyl has so far found no variation, though using scales so delicate that they can detect differences of one part in a billion...