Word: layer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Bell crystals are grown in thick-walled steel "bombs" filled with a water solution of alkaline material (see diagram). At the bottom is a layer of finely ground quartz (silica). A small quartz crystal (it may be only a sliver) is suspended near the top. When the bottom of the bomb is heated to 750°F., and the pressure raised to 15,000 Ibs. per sq. in., the ground quartz dissolves. Its molecules diffuse through the solution. When they reach the cooler top of the chamber, they deposit one by one on the "seed," building it into a perfect...
...York City shows only that the architect has been able to express with complete, esthetic frankness the purpose of the structure. The long lines of glass, stainless steel and brick are fresh and esthetically sound, and do not collect as much dust as did their predecessors with layer upon layer of excremental ornament...
...question was not, 'Why did they break?'" explained Major Sobel, "but 'Why did they continue to endure?' " Sobel and his associates found that a five-layer cushion of psychological defenses had protected the old sergeants-and presumably all soldiers who survived long stretches of combat in good mental health -from caving in. As the layers were peeled away, normal combat anxiety eventually turned into psychoneurosis and the old sergeant became a casualty: ¶ "Distant ideals"-a reliance on such intangibles as "the four freedoms," democracy, and the desire for "keeping the enemy out of the United...
...result was a squat, dumpy ziggurat tapering toward the top and crowned with a concrete blockhouse containing elevator and air-conditioning equipment. High-minded architects referred to them scornfully as "wedding-cake modern." They were white and unadorned, faceless warrens comprised of layer upon layer of strip windows alternating with concrete, like stacked sandwiches. They looked appallingly alike...
...novel (her first about contemporary life since 138's bestselling Rebecca) is so plumply padded with this sort of verbiage that it resembles a kind of composite morning & evening tummy-round, full, and yet flat as a board. Replete with bestselling ingredients. The Parasites is constructed on layer-cake lines, i.e., a chapter about the dismal present is sandwiched between two flashback chapters about the glamourous past. Three main characters, members of the Delaney family, take turns telling the story. All get their chance to report in a chapter how they were seduced in their youth...