Word: crystalize
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...striking features of the massive Soviet embassy in East Berlin-the sword-bearing guards, the half-ton crystal chandeliers, the stained-glass picture of the Kremlin clock tower-the most striking was the cold. It was so chilly that a couple of the diplomats clustered around the table turned up their collars. The temperature was symbolic...
...once Owen's greatest asset and a liability which he is most likely to deplore. Like the Hogarth engravings on his office walls, Owen's lectures are liberally sprinkled with bits of historical paraphernalia, each so interesting in itself that it is likely to detract from the whole. The "Crystal Palace" lecture, featuring lantern slides of a once famous Victorian exhibition, along with Owen's barbed asides, is an example. "I'm sorry it has developed into a kind of stunt or parlor trick. It really has a value in depicting the Victorian era," he remarked in justification...
...These discoveries," Sognnaes states make clearer what is involved in the decay of a tooth. The micro-organisms that are believed to cause decay. . . are much wider than the individual crystal and organic units that make up the enamel. Hence, before a micro-organism can invade the enamel, both the organic and the inorganic matter (or the bond between the two) must be destroyed or weakened in some...
...touched each blade-then the Swiss were off. Using Feierabend's simple formula-"Hug the curves high and develop speed, like a dive bomber"-the Swiss sled was soon hitting 80 m.p.h. It spun through a series of labyrinth curves, down an ice-coated chute into famed Crystal Curve (where 24 sleds cracked up in 1950), then whipped across the finish line in a wild flurry of snow as the brakeman pulled to a stop. The announced time brought a roar from the crowd: 1:18.94, a new record...
...fathers of modern radio; by his own hand (a jump from his 13th floor apartment) after writing a note to his wife which concluded: "May God help you and have mercy on my soul"; in Manhattan. In 1913 he worked out the regenerative circuit, which outmoded crystal receiving sets with a sensitive vacuum tube system; his superheterodyne circuit, developed in 1918 while serving in France, is still the basic circuit of AM radio. In 1939, he perfected a method for eliminating static (now known as FM). A professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University for the last 20 years...