Word: crude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pieces of eight" has become a byword in connection with Treasure Island. The coins displayed are dated in the 1690's and are the crude money of which Stevenson wrote. Instead of being minted, the silver coins were cut from the end of rough silver bars, and stamped with a design in the center. The edges remained irregular...
...Edsel expected to fly to South America this summer in a Ford-Stout plane. Again, that he and Thomas A. Edison were working on rubber raising (he had said this before, but the public forgets). Then he said "we are building a new Diesel engine-burning crude oil instead of gasoline-and we hope it will deliver one horsepower for each pound it weighs. I am personally laying it out although a crowd of us, Edsel and others, are working on it." (See AERONAUTICS.) All these and other remarks were made sublime by Edsel Ford's remarking that...
...goodness sake' V. M. Rogers, High School Principal, read more of Angelo Patri's writings, a real principal who will undoubtedly acquaint you with the first principle of being a good Principal, is not to be so crude...
...Magnesite is an ore much mined in the U. S. In its crude form it is used for steel making. With lime, it is a filler in rubber making. It is also used in fireproof cement and insulating materials. . . . The President raised the U. S. tariff 50% on imported magnesite...
...vital essentials, presenting them in the most concise, dram- atic manner. This directness, this simplicity is necessary to the author's purpose, the presentation of reality. What man, we may ask, with more complicated literary machinery, has ever come so near that goal? Mr. Hemingway finds life a very crude, a very various thing and so he represents it as he finds it, unpolished by the artifices of a more conventional style...