Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a capacity of two and a half quarts, the crude cup is of silver and devoid of ornament. Its rim has been turned to make a smooth surface for drinking. It rests in a loose silver filigree holder of elaborate workmanship which shows, in a framework of vine leaves, birds and flowers, two figures of the youthful and the mature Christ and ten Apostles and Saints. All the faces are individual portraits. Though there is no way of dating the inner cup, most experts seem to agree that the large outer holder was made not later than the last...
After the most frantic sleuthing on the part of the victim whose mail was so grossly polluted, the identity of the crude practical joker was brought to light. There will be some sort of retaliation; of that there is no doubt, but the inmates of the entry shudder to think in what form it will appear...
...without winking. Despite glimpses of temple prostitutes, riot victims, child wives, the gigantic temple car being pulled through the streets, the most dramatic pictures are simple landscapes of the gaunt country around Khyber Pass, inhabited only by fighting men, with troops, tanks and airplanes revolving around a crude sign that reads: "Frontier of India, Travellers Are Not Permitted to Pass...
...gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet on Douglas fir and western hemlock. In addition, the U. S. agreed to keep on the free list wood pulp and newsprint, crude asbestos, wood shingles (with limitations), lobsters, telegraph poles, undressed mink, beaver, muskrat and wolf skins, nickel ore, cobalt and quahaugs. Other items on which the U. S. duty was reduced: electric cooking stoves, lacrosse sticks, swordfish (if not frozen), eels, chubs, saugers and tullibees, pipe organs for churches, ice skates, alewives...
...Coffey & Humber gave crude extracts of adrenal cortex to victims of cancer. Many of them at once declared that they felt better. A very few recovered from what may or may not have been cancer ulcers...