Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...
...took up humor as a profession four years ago," he said, "at the outbreak of the modern generation." And here, Mr. Stewart lapsed into a seriousness which interested his hearers even more than his humor. In the age of the "lowly arts," of crude, bare writings, of jazz, he detects a sort of Renaissance of literature and of art and a new emancipation from the ties of European precedent. Freed at last from conventional forms, America, he predicts, will advance in culture far beyond Europe, which is now a land whose development is stifled by hate...
...music is of a very crude type, somewhat similar to the plainsong used in rituals today in a very high Catholic church. It is sung in unison and is to a degree monotonous...
Evidently the petroleum industry is slated for interesting developments in 1925, despite the fact that last year saw the most stabilized situation in oil for many years. For the first time since 1906, domestic crude production failed to exceed that of the preceding year−mainly the result of the decline in flush California output by 32,812,000 barrels from the total established in 1923. Crude oil storage increased 19,000,000 barrels, against 79,578,000 in 1923 and 79,000,000 in 1922. Meanwhile, the record of annual demand for petroleum products was again broken last year...
...prosperity in Hollisburg, Hollis County, Ind. He has all the best property, none of the better instincts. Colonel Oliver Perry Morton Hollis and his dark, haughty daughter, Ruth, represent the town's historical background. They have the better instincts, but their property is bred out. A nice, crude, straightforward narrative is contrived by dragging in a hero-tramp with a fraternity pin, two trig scoundrels right out of Horatio Alger, a sleepy attorney who makes small-town small talk, a Chicago magnate who turns out to be a detective. Fists fly, autos are stolen, the big dam gets dynamited...