Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oklahoma State Corporation Commission last week played its part towards restricting the overproduction of crude oil (TIME, July 18) by issuing a temporary order forbidding the drilling in of new oil wells or the shooting* of old ones in certain districts of the state. The peg for the order was the commission's belief that it was empowered to conserve the state's natural resources. Gypsy Oil Co.† considered that peg too frail; protested at once that the order was unconstitutional because it deprived the company of enjoying the fruits of oil production, because it was discriminatory...
...situation. But lawyers doubt its constitutionality. Meanwhile, Shell Union Oil Co., after spending $100,000 to drill a well down 6,000 feet near Marshall, Logan County, Okla., had just tapped an oil level new to Oklahoma. Theirs is the deepest paying well there, producing 3,600 barrels of crude oil daily.* The nearby Seminole area of Oklahoma with more than 550 wells last week established a new record for one day's output-444,000 barrels. This, however, was just one half of what the whole state averaged for the day. This production, considered with...
...full of glaring errors and stupidities. For example, he alludes to TIME as being "typically American, quaintly ungrammatical." It is obvious that he knows nothing of Amer. or of the study of language, for the English grammar used in this country is far more nearly accurate, and infinitely less crude and vulgar, than that used by the corresponding classes in England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest and "toughest" holiday crowd at Coney Island uses better speech, and far better manners...
TIME is a crude affair. "While I was musing the fire burned...
...Legend of the Bear's Wedding. Russian art, music, drama, though often sharply crude, is rarely dull. This gruesome Soviet production is bluntly directed, stagily acted. But it is also strangely fascinating. The wife of a wealthy hunstman is horribly clawed by a bear just before her son is born. The son, as a result, is impelled to dress himself as a bear and craftily attack tender maids. At last, to the horror of the villagers, he marries a lively girl. The expected happens. He reverts to beast, rips her to death on their wedding night...