Word: crude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year the unexpectedly large production of crude petroleum brought on a crisis in the oil industry by smashing the high prices for crude oil and even for its refined products. Large companies, however, stocked the excess crude oil product, and refineries greatly increased their stocks of gasoline. This policy seemed fairly safe at the time, because of automobile makers' confident predictions of a 5,000,000 car year in 1924 and a consequent heavy increase in gasoline consumption...
...these are the best stories that journalism can give, they are certainly crude examples of "belles lettres." Largely responsible for their crudity are the limitations of newspaper work. Time and space do not permit the careful building up of background. Less excusable is the all too frequent lack of coherence...
...points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally mystified as a result. A more external treatment for the bulk of the story should make the incidents more real. But the effect...
...Republican Tariff. "Let's see what the people are to get tax-free under your bill. First, you are going to let bones come in free, and Brazilian pebbles. Then, bristles, if they are crude, cuttlefish bone, dry insects, stems of vegetables and flowers?I don't understand how they escaped. Birds' eggs and fish eggs, free. Fish skins, fossils, dragon's blood. Horsehair, hoops, old junk. If it's new junk it can't come in free. I don't know whether you let loaded dice in free, but you are giving the American people loaded dice in this...
...Ways and Means Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives reported favorably a bill prohibiting the importation of crude opium for the manufacture of heroin. Most of the narcotic addicts in New York City are heroin addicts...