Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good morning, 1937! I have seen many sunrises from above, but this is a fresh one. All kinds of color schemes are here, for the first of the newest day. The upper rim of this blazing sun is gold and yellow, right from the start. The air is crystal clear. Am I imagining? Maybe. Maybe not. Altitude does funny things to people. Some laugh foolishly. Some get cracky, with as little reason. What does it do to me? I don't know. My mind is inside itself and can't see its image without some kind...
...some dispatches reported. Just as they were being printed the Queen drove out in her regal Daimler. The chauffeur bowled along at moderate pace through a middle-class section of London and presently Queen Mary inspected through her lorgnette the still smoking ruins of the $10,000,000 Crystal Palace on which Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert lavished so much care when preparing the Great Exhibition...
...conflagration of the Crystal Palace last week sent towering 500 feet in air a column of flame seen by rustics in eight counties round about and was called the biggest London blaze since the historic "Great Fire" of 1666. One of 90 fire engines which struggled vainly to save the Exhibition Hall accidentally soused His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the youngest son of Queen Mary, who was nicknamed by playfellows at school as "The Scent Bottle." In last week's unreeling of an Empire crisis, sleek, scented Kent was most of the time an orchidaceous extra waiting...
...summoned newshawks to its downtown Manhattan offices for the cable's first public demonstration. The cable can transmit 240 telephone messages at once. The voices are reduced to radio frequencies and all poured on the cable at once, separated at the receiving end by quartz crystal wave filters. Last week an engineer in one room merely talked to a reporter in the adjoining room, but between speaker and hearer the message made 40 trips between Manhattan and Philadelphia (3,800 miles), the frequency being shifted to a different wave length after every round trip. Then 20 frequencies were poured...
Five minutes later, over the paper's dying embers, he slowly twirled a crystal ball and bade the reporters concentrate, which alien operation was performed only with the most intense effort. But after several moments of entranced gazing into the Garden of Allah (which appeared to be in the South End) Mogul began to whisper, his brows furrowed with concentration...