Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credulity. Possibly this is part of the charm of the book since, although we of today cannot imagine such happenings in a Twentieth Century such happenings in a Twentieth Century world, we nevertheless realize the similarity of character and emotion which has persisted through the rough and oftentimes crude period of our early history. Because these men are not historical characters and therefore were not great and unusual men, we appreciate even more that these were the men who built the west and are responsible for the extent to which civilization has been allowed to travel...
Most of the 2,500 existing doodlebugs have a 75-inch wheelbase, as compared to the 105-inch average of standard racing cars, weigh from 600 to 1,000 lb. The original midget cars were crude affairs powered by motorcycle engines, later by outboard motors, cost about $400 to build. In 1934 Los Angeles' Frederick Offenhauser, longtime assistant of Harry Miller whose standard-size engines won most of the important U. S. auto races in the past decade, developed a special miniature motor. Most top-notch doodlebuggers now use Offenhauser motors, spend up to $5,000 for a racing...
...pomp was lavished on these foreign envoys. Housed in sleeping cars in a Nürnberg freight yard, they shared a crude drawing room, had to walk down the tracks for their baths. Only official recognition of their presence was a tea with Hitler at which the Führer moved among the tables, chatting with them. Night before envoys of the U. S., Britain and France arrived, toucan-beaked Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels gibed that democracies were "stupid cows going to the slaughter house...
This blunt admission, distressingly crude, had its elegant Japanese counterpart in a speech to the Diet last week by Premier Prince Konoye. "I think there are many persons in the Chinese Government who understand Japan, including General Chiang Kai-shek," purred the Premier. "I think it should be the basic keynote of Japan's China policy to make the Chinese race and the Chinese Government return to their original nature as an Oriental people." After explaining that Communism is un-Oriental. while tactfully omitting to mention that the Chinese Communists have now tentatively joined forces with the Chinese Government...
...rich radium deposit is one which yields 90 to 120 milligrams (.00315 to .0042 oz.) nearly pure radium bromide salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore). From ore bodies of such richness in northwestern Canada the refining plant is able to extract one gram of commercially pure radium from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample...