Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against it, sending aloft clouds of fleecy steam. Beneath it ran rivulets of slush. Behind it lay a street cleared of its matted snow. It was a snow melter, invented by John B. Lodge of Beacon, N. Y. The steam drum could be heated to 2,000 Fahrenheit by crude oil under compression burned within...
...Standard Oil Co. of California is a complete cycle in the oil industry. It is the largest individual producer of crude oil in the U. S. and dominates the marketing of petroleum products along the west coast of both Americas. It is carrying on oil exploration work in Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina. It was originally incorporated in 1879 under the name of the Pacific Coast Oil Co.; changed its name to that of the Standard Oil Co. in 1906. All its stock the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey owned until 1911, when the Government forced...
...following year, although with the same directors, the same methods, the following year, although with the same directors, the same methods the same training, and many of the same singers, it dropped from first to eleventh place in the ranking. There were eleven colleges competing. Now that was rather crude and obvious, but there were no complaints, no accusations made, and the club went right on competing for two more years. Does that show bad sportsmanship...
...Fleer to insinuate that Harvard's defeat due to "crude and obvious" unfairness on the part of the judge I unhesitatingly call bad--very bad--sportsmanship. Truly yours Francis Rogers...
...soul." He told of the ups and downs of rubber planting; told of hard times immediately following the War when "it was literally a case with many plantations of 'To be or not to be-aye, there's the rubber!'" He concluded: "Although prices for crude rubber touched exceedingly high levels for a few months last year, the average price for the whole year was only about 73? a pound, and the average for the past five years has been only about 32? or 33?. "Neither the Government of Great Britain nor that of the Straits Settlement...