Word: crude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think it's pretty crude myself," ventured Mr. Smith, modest...
Heat Mines. An unassuming, bespectacled gentleman, John L. Hodgson, mining engineer, asked his hearers to realize how crude were the surface scrapings made by the earliest coal "miners" in comparison with the vast black honeycombs modern machinery digs-and then to realize how picayune were present-day coal mines compared to the shafts that might some day be driven, 30 miles into the earth's crust, to tap a store of heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could...
Mechanical geniuses congratulated themselves that they and their kind have now provided society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries of nuts chewing gum candy weighing stamps matches cigarets hair combs soap perfume shoe shines music electric shocks crude cinema horoscopes telephoning cooked food photographs drinking cups handkerchiefs napkins comfort subway rides soft drinks cosmetics name plates Other mechanical geniuses wondered if fortunes might not be made by furnishing society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries...
...they do not care for the rest of the world and especially not for the American oil producers, as Vacuum looks upon the whole matter from the point of view that they are oil traders wishing to buy in the cheapest market and are not concerned with the American crude production? From an exclusively trading point of view this position only seems to be right, but it is a short view and the folly of it is bound to be shown in the future. Shortsighted people run greater risk of being run over by the traffic than those who have...
Recent aspects of the Tully visitation have been disappointing. Classified with and by the elect as a hardboiled, outspoken cynic, Mr. Tully has been put to it to keep his crudeness spectacular and not merely crude, especially in his writings about the Hollywood notables whom he met when living with Charles Spencer Chaplin as strong-armed, sympathetic major domo. But these circus addenda to the Tully autobiography (Beggars of Life, 1924) return to a milieu wholly comfortable for Mr. Tully, where he can exercise his storytelling ability with no private emotion more complicating than a half-hearted wish to trade...