Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even those who fail to appreciate him admit that Roy Harris has worked like one possessed. His first compositions were as crude as a schoolboy's but within three years he had written an Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports...
...This, he discovered, was hard enough to cut glass and, when applied with oil to a wheel, would cut the face of a diamond tool. Acheson called the stuff "carborundum," because he thought it was composed of corundum and carbon before it was analyzed as silicon carbide. The first crude furnace produced a quarter-pound of carborundum a day. which was sold to jewelers for $880 per Ib. Frank Tone, a good businessman as well as an able scientist, built up the company that today makes 16,000 tons of carborundum a year, sells...
...Where no crude surfeit reigus...
...Ethiopian Lion is quietly sharpening his claws in preparation for the moment when he will pit his courage, savage skill and crude weapons against the scientifically equipped Italian Jackal," cabled the Herald Tribune's Linton Wells from the Champion's corner in Addis Ababa, taking sides at once as a good fight reporter must. "What impresses one particularly is the amazing morale of these classic-featured, bushy-haired black men. . . . So eager to fight are the Ethiopian lions that the Emperor is able only with difficulty to restrain them from attacking the Italians and precipitating the conflict...
More cheerful was Phillips Petroleum Co., which more than a year ago instituted a fifth advance in gasoline manufacture. Gasoline was first made by boiling oil, next by squeezing gasoline vapor out of natural gas ("casing-head process"), later by distillation of crude oil ("cracking"), finally by hydrogenation. The Phillips process was polymerization-formation of heavy molecules from light ones with heat, pressure, catalysts (chemical activators). By this method lightweight derivatives formerly wasted or diverted to by-products are made into high-grade fuel. Trade papers pointed out that if all gaseous hydrocarbons produced in cracking were utilized...