Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only to grow but to become a threat to foreign oilmen. Caldera is building a small (3,000 bbl. a day) oil refinery, plans to build a huge one (300,000 bbl. a day) in the industry's third phase. The fact that most refining of Venezuelan crude is now done elsewhere is a sore issue between the government and the foreign-owned companies. La Petroquímica's action in building refineries, which primarily make fuel rather than the raw materials of petrochemicals, is a clear statement that Venezuela intends to move to some degree into...
...made brain surgery a lifesaving, everyday procedure. Working side by side with Gushing was a radiologist. Dr. Merrill Sosman, who pioneered X-ray treatment for pituitary tumors. In 1920 Surgeon Elliott Cutler made a daring attempt at surgery inside the heart, to correct a narrowed mitral valve; it was crude and premature (all but one patient died), but it helped pave the way for one of his pupils, Dwight Emary Harken. In 1948 Dr. Harken was one of three surgeons who, independently and almost simultaneously, began to operate with increasing success and decreasing risk to widen mitral valves scarred...
Senses No. 6 through No. 9 are found easily by breaking down the sense of touch into five separate senses: "crude" touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain. (Some authorities list four: "true" touch, temperature, superficial pain and deep pain.) Says Author David W. Foerster, a third-year medical student (University of Oklahoma) who has made a special study of the subject: "Ordinarily, when we feel an object, we bring into play three or four of these senses simultaneously . . . When we touch a hot stove, we experience heat, pain, crude touch and perhaps pressure...
Fiddles v. Physics. Heading east with his doctorate in 1936, Dean Wooldridge went to work for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan, helping to explore new frontiers in electronics. When World War II began, he was put in charge of work on the first crude airborne fire-control systems, later headed an Army Ordnance study that led to the development of the first Nike guided missile. By 1946 Wooldridge was chief of Bell's physical electronics department. Yet life in an ivory tower began to chafe. Says Wooldridge: "I began to realize that...
...rocket (a modified Viking) is about to be launched with the small third-stage rocket sticking out of its nose. This combination is nothing like the complete launching vehicle. The second-stage rocket will contain the most subtle guiding instruments, and its omission will make the flight a comparatively crude affair. But valuable information can be gathered about the performance of the third-stage rocket, whose purpose is to start firing about 300 miles above the surface and reach the necessary speed (18,000 m.p.h.) to stay in an orbit around the earth...