Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred thousand Britishers gathered at the Crystal Palace, near London, in 1859 to honor the memory of Composer George Frederick Handel. An able tenor was to climax the music festival. The audience waited; he did not appear. Suddenly, a voice, clearer and purer than any they had ever heard, swelled through Crystal Palace. They saw a choir boy of 14, Edward Lloyd...
...inference to be drawn from such strange researches is, that if President Coolidge is still in doubt about 1928, he should consult no crystal balls, no mystics, no political prophets, no embattled farmers?but he should go straight to the office of Professor Charles F. Marvin, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who is the last word on rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window...
...preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when the soul is pure...
...GOLDEN DAY-Lewis Mum- ford-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Cultural history of the U. S. bot- tled in crystal...
...wind scoured our faces, hands, and any other exposca parts, with a merciless rain of flying sand, filling the pockets of our clothes, my pockets rather, and the deme with minute particles. So fine was that dust that I afterwards removed a generous supply from beneath my watch crystal, which is generally dust proof...