Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this sum only three millions were realized. Then the Continental Trading Co. was disbanded. The Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. (mentioned above as "a third company") bought the remaining contract...
Marland Oil Co.-No earnings; losses, $7,691,076. Previous year's earnings, $11,690,911. President E. W. Marland reminded stockholders of the crisis through which all oil companies passed in 1927, due to the uncontrolled production of crude...
...notables as Herbert Hoover from Washington to New York is evidence of this fact. There is a great distinction, however, between such a transmission over wires and one over the radio, as was first completed from London to a town near New York. It is true these images were crude and rather imperfect but images none the less. The shifting shapes of first a man and later a women demonstrated that transatlantic television to a reality...
Those who are amused to see crude and rather unattractive old men making love to snappy young widows and suffering all the tribulations that are entailed in making themselves appropriately presentable; and those who enjoy seeing simple-minded, timid, young gentlemen involving themselves with innocent but ardent young ladies, saving the day finally through sheer dumbness, acquiring a few millions for themselves into the bargain, should go to see Bronson Howard's "The New Henrietta", at the Repertory Theatre this week...
Bertie, the simple-minded bashful young gentleman is excellently acted by Milton Owen, being easily the best actor on the stage. His self-possession and unexaggerated performance go far to make the play very amusing. Next in the line of able performance comes the crude old man, Nick Van Alstyne, portrayed by Thomas Shearer, who, though a bit forced in the first act, becomes much more convincing and amusing as the play goes on-especially in his practicing how to appear and comport himself correctly in the presence of the snappy widow. The widow Olga Birbeck carries off the honors...