Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rensem (Bing Crosby) to wither the romance of her niece with a gambler. The check rein of Will Hayes may be partially responsible for Miss Lillie's failure to amuse as readily on the screen as on the stage. The ocillades and gestures on which she relies appear only crude before the camera. Bing Crosby provides an innocuous background, giving repeated versions of "On the Sentimental Side," but the laurels belong to Andy Devine, who as Policeman O'Roon with boisterous diligence, stamps on crime...
...acts on raw material. Thus the psychologists feed into the machine a set of questions called an intelligence test, lump the answers together as one product and weigh it, labeling the weight the I. Q. But one school of psychologists, believing the I. Q. is too crude a measure (like lumping apples, oranges and bananas all together and calling them fruit), has been trying to break up the mind into its separate parts. Last week the most eminent investigator in this field reported some significant findings...
...Scientist Karl Ehrhardt of Germany published photographs of a female monkey holding a young guinea pig in a maternal manner. This foster mother had been injected with a crude extract from pituitary glands. In 1932 Dr. Oscar Riddle and his associates at the Carnegie Institution's station for experimental evolution on Long Island obtained in almost pure form the same pituitary substance which had made Ehrhardt's monkey act like a mother. Because it was a stimulant of milk secretion this substance was called prolactin...
...still fresh in the mind, one finds it exceedingly difficult to see here as the gawky, ignorant saloon keeper of "Girl of the Golden West." In spite of her ragged clothes and her western twang (which miraculously disappears now and then), she is as out of place in her crude surroundings as William Randolph Hearst at a Communist meeting. Nelson Eddy, back from his ill-fated venture at West Point, has also been democratized; but the results in his case are all for the good. The story is very far-fetched, and suffers from an insipid happy ending; but Sigmund...
...about an acre a day. In 1920 a San Antonio jack-of-all-trades named Ellis Albaugh visited his brother-in-law at Seguin, Tex. The brother-in-law had a broken leg, and not enough choppers were available to work his cotton fields. So Ellis Albaugh built a crude machine which...