Word: crystalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week London lost the last traces of a sentimental old symbol-the Crystal Palace. A Victorian monster of iron and glass, surrounded by gardens full of melancholy statuary, the Palace had been since 1854 London's high-toned version of Coney Island. Thousands of contemporary Londoners had their first childhood outings there, listening to holy choirs, brass bands, evangelists; watching cricket, soccer, motorbike races; running through the gardens, boating on the pond. In World War I the grounds and building incongruously became H.M.S. Crystal Palace-i.e. a "training ship" for naval reservists...
Professor Berman is studying crystal coloration and various supposed radio-active effects on minerals. The cyclotron permits quick laboratory duplication of the long-term effects of naturally occurring radioactive substances...
...personality as Kay Motford, the girl he eventually marries, is conventional. And Harry Pulham himself, who is unable to break away from the traditions in which he was brought up, is genuine and convincing at all times. It cannot be denied that "H. M. Pulham, Esquire" is a crystal-clear delineation of the life of a Harvard man. Harry's story certainly is not to be read as a sure-fire formula for success in life, but just as certainly it is to be read for sheer enjoyment...
...atmosphere of the shop, and in the trophies and pictures which hide its walls. The pictures especially are intriguing. They vary all the way from a fading photograph of Harry Cowles, forty-five years ago, when he was a ball-boy at the Newport Casino, to a crystal-clear shot of Champion Beckman Pool '32, in his underwear...
...fleet; its Washington Embassy equally flatly added: "There is no foundation whatsoever to the rumors of peace negotiations, territorial cessions by France to Germany or to Italy, use of French strategical bases by those powers, or curtailment of French sovereignty in any point of France or her Empire." The crystal balls were retired and irritated newshawks pestered the Vichy Government to say, if these things were not discussed, then what the dickens...