Word: crude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirty and succeeded. For this was the Gripsholm, arriving on her maiden trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, the first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder Diesel engines of a new design, the largest ever built, which use crude oil for internal combustion approximately as an "automobile uses gasoline. Each engine drives a propeller. The vessel averaged 17 knots. Its smokestacks are dummies...
Thus the only party to worry about the strike is the public, and so far no great worrying has apparently been done. More and more, however, resort is being had to soft coal, crude oil and other fuels adaptable to household use. Makers of equipment for such use are enjoying considerable activity...
...motive and method were Oriental, but the idea was as Western as soap or bathrooms. Reno, Paris, the divorce mills of the Oocident are but crude counterparts of the gentle Eastern system of demotion. Many men would appreciate the opportunity of getting rid of their wives by the smooth working machinery used by His Highness of Siam. With judicious advertising, Bankok could become the demotion capital of the world...
...bellboy in a California hotel wrote this play and labored for two years to have it produced. It deals with the white-Negro problem and is at times penetrating and moving. For a Negro bellboy it is a brilliant achievement. For a professional playwright it would have been considered crude and relatively unimportant...
...more fervid performances. Even as actors of genuine talent sometimes paw the air and mouth their lines, so Tilden permitted himself an occasional half-stagger; he took off his shoes and played in his stocking feet; he poured buckets of ice-water over his bleak brow. However crude his technique in indicating to the gallery that he was a beaten man, it had its undeniable effect. Women murmured sympathetically. Men gnawed their lips. Lacoste determined...