Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Streamlined, too, was Shakespeare, six of whose plays were cut to 45-min. editions. Rowdy and rollicking was the Midway with live pythons and motorized dinosaurs. Appearing in "The Front Page," a crude re-enactment of how criminals are executed, was John Dillinger Sr.. grizzled, 71-year-old father...
...Hitler brashly militarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. What made Kamâl Atatürk's action the pink of Turkish politeness was that Turkey's Dictator is suspected of having almost completed secret fortification of the Dardanelles, might easily have been crude about...
...present has no commercial production outside the U. S., though foreign business accounts for about 20% of its total sales. California Standard has no retail marketing system "east of Suez." But on the island of Bahrein in the Persian Gulf it does have a great potential supply of crude (see p. 21). Development was started in 1931 and a big refinery is under construction. Yet last year California Standard was able to sell only 1,300,000 bbl. of Bahrein oil. In Saudi Arabia and the Netherland Indies the company has other concessions which may develop into rich producers...
TIME, June 1. . . . Rainbow Room incident. I was seated at dais, talking to lady. Wedemar came to table and saluted me with, "Hello, you yellow ." Familiar with crude Wedemar humor, I attempted to pass off remark with ''Hello, Lou!" He repeated salutation and I stood up, drew him aside and said, "Lou, do you mean that, or are you kidding?" He assured me, with another offensive remark, that he meant it. I led him outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election...
...famed Jack McLean at the 20th hole but, in another terrific match the next day, he had lost to James Ferrier. It was Ferrier now who seemed entirely capable of taking the title back to New South Wales. Amateur champion of Australia at 22, a huge young man whose crude swing is capable of propelling the ball 350 yd., he had won most of his matches with disheartening ease. When he disposed of Alec Hill, who had beaten beefy Cyril Tolley in the quarterfinals, there was no one left between him and the title except Scotland's stylish Hector...