Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twisted personalities, it lacks the depth that would make the killer terrifying, lacks the intensity that would make the imbecile a final agent of horror. Instead, the boy is merely unpleasant, and the whole play dangles uneasily between the stock and the stark. But it dangles with a certain crude fascination...
...State Must Be Created. Sikorski was cordial, sensible, farsighted. He said that the underground must be an actual state: "All the apparatus of a state must be created and maintained at all costs, no matter how crude...
...founding of Harvard's Botanical Museum, now a part of Agassiz, when Professor George L. Goodale was searching for a practical means of including a collection of plant life in the new museum. Dried plants were out of the question, and wax copies were too crude. At the Comparative Zoology Museum he saw several small glass reproductions of jellyfish and conceived the idea of modelling flowers in glass. The same year he hurried to Germany to present his plans to Leopold Blaschka, creator of the marine life done in glass...
...German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent, crude provocations on the eve of parliamentary elections in democratic countries, up to the burning of the Reichstag in Germany...
These were staples of prewar Mediterranean imports. Red squill, a plant that resembles the onion, is dried and processed into rat poison. Argols, scales that form on the lining of old wine vats, are a crude form of potassium bitartrate. Bergamot oils are used in perfumes and soaps...