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involves a very long and gradual cooling process. The furnace was opened and when the test pieces were uncovered, to their amazement, they saw one great big crystal of copper shaped rather like a cigar and about the same size. The men in the laboratory examined it and said they had never seen such a thing before. Similar tests were subsequently made with the same results in nearly all cases. Then the laboratory took the thing over for more detailed investigation. It was purely accidental that the thing was discovered. No.2 furnace is now sealed ready to run on Monday morning, and in it I have a test specimen. It should be open on Wednesday, and if the crystal comes out well, I will send it to you. I am awfully anxious to see it myself. (February 21, 1925) This afternoon I mailed the copper to you. There is one big chunk on the surface of which you can see the lines between the large grains quite plainly. The two pieces of wire demonstrate that peculiar property of this kind of copper of being easily bent the first time, but after that, becoming more rigid than steel. Both of these pieces have been bent and you can see how stiff they are now. No one would believe that copper could be made so stiff unless they actually saw a piece of it.

[[underlined]] To Willie, February 1925: [[/underlined]] We are just arriving in Utica now. It has seemed so long, although it has been only about 73 minutes -- 77 miles in 73 minutes ! -- New Year's Day, 77 miles in one minute ! What a difference it makes when one has the dearest girl in all the world with one. We must invent some scheme to fool time next summer.

[[underlined]] To Willie, March 1, 1925: [[/underlined]] Last night our bridge session was slightly interrupted about 9:20 by the earthquake, which you may have felt too. It was announced over the radio that it was felt as far south as Kentucky, although the newspapers didn't mention Kentucky as being within the area. We were all seated around the card table in Andrews' room, very deeply engrossed in some hot bidding. The first thing I noticed was a sort of thumping of my chair against my back. I thought at first that my heart must be beating hard -- I could imagine nothing else -- so I leaned away from the back of the chair, but the chair kept moving. Then I thought that Andy was swaying the chair with his foot, but lo and behold nothing was touching the old chair. Then all at once everyone seemed to realize that something was wrong, as the whole room began to rock, the swaying getting more violent every second, until the very walls of the room began to move in relation to each other. We were aghast and were about to get out of the house when the tremors began to die down and were soon gone. The whole shock only lasted about forty-five seconds but it seemed more like about forty-five minutes. The experience was rather fun though at first, until the walls of the room began to weave around, when it ceased