Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crude affair very much different than our wheelbarrows...
Samuel Marinus Zwemer is a big-boned, crude-featured, Dutch-descended son of Michigan. He has been called the most daring, resourceful and successful Christian Missionary to the Moslem world. When the issue is Cross against Crescent he is proud to stick at nothing. Therefore it was but characteristic that Dr. Zwemer should have been caught red handed at Cairo, last week, in the act of proselytizing students at the Mohammedan University of El-Azhar...
Briefly, the Prime Minister announced that on Nov. 1, 1928, the Empire will abandon its six-year-old program of attempting to force up the world price of rubber by curtailing the supply. This program, the so-called Stevenson Plan, went into effect in 1922, when crude rubber stood at 17? a pound, and bounced the price up within three years to $1.21. That meant bonanza profits for British plantations. Why then is the Stevenson Plan about to be scrapped...
...Amalgamation of British plantations to meet the world competition which must now be squarely faced; 2) Continued low prices of crude rubber; 3) Development of the system of co-operative buying among U. S. consumers which has proved effective in battering down rubber prices...
...Young Man; his great trilogy Ave, Salve, Vale; and his more recent elusively rich and moving Heloise and Abelard (1921). The trouble with these works is, however, that they appeal merely to a small group, select and perhaps elect. Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from the lordly stalls but from the common, vociferating gallery...