Word: crude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia about 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and the system soon spread to the rest of the colonies. Before the introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept filled by means of bucket chains extending to the nearest lake or river. One of these engines is shown in the accompanying picture with a fireman on top directing the liquid stream...
Automotive Engineers, in annual meeting at Detroit, were skeptical of the importance of the Mitten innovation, believed that it had been devised too late. H. C. Dickinson of the Federal Bureau of Standards argued: "Gasoline is made by cracking crude oil and the big oil companies can crack oil so cheaply now that it hardly pays to develop an automobile engine that will do this work. Besides, when the oil is cracked at the refineries, the by-products which have a market value are saved. When oil is cracked in an automobile engine it is lost...
...Bove's suggestive letter in your columns yesterday contains many true facts, but his solution of having a combined Junior-Sophomore dance seems unnecessarily crude. If he attended the 1929 Dance last year he is doubtless aware that his class had by no means a monopoly of those present. In fact it was openly boasted by a member of a Class of 1928 that, not to mention three "Freshman Jubilees, he then counted four Junior Dances on his record. So why limit his glorious function to members of the Sophomore and Junior classes. And above all let's keep...
...passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid 5¢ to see an elephant switch its tail in the Edison kinetoscope, the first crude moving-picture machine. Author Will Irwin says: "That five-cent piece was the initial investment which grew into his present fortune...
...riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor told Brady that moving pictures would make up its losses. Backed by Brady, he started a chain of cinema "palaces" in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh? empty stores made into theatres with crude stages and chairs bought second-hand from bankrupt undertaking parlors. He had one real theatre with a piano?the Comedy, in Union Square, Manhattan...