Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fused by electricity to attach the "stud." But on perpendicular plates there was no way to keep the flux in place. Instead, a small square of "welding pad" had to be laboriously welded, then the stud welded to that. Ted Nelson wearied of doing this, finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting his gun in a shop behind his home at Vallejo. His simple solution: encase the flux in a small cap and fasten...
Drillers struck oil last week in the muck of Florida's Everglades, where Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest domestic affiliate of Standard of New Jersey, bailed out the first 400 barrels of black crude from the first producing well on the Eastern Seaboard. Standard's 11,700-ft.-deep well added fuel to the old hope of geologists that the great Gulf Coast oil beds extend eastward to the Atlantic, comprise an area almost double that of the present known fields...
Other important penicillin news: Drs. George H. Robinson and James E. Wallace of Pittsburgh have used crude green penicillium mold (which produces the drug penicillin) in healing stubborn surface wounds. Highly refined penicillin, on which the armed forces have priorities, is necessary for bloodstream injections, but the doctors did not see why surface poultices needed to be so fancy. Their idea was that the living mold might make penicillin right in the wound. They are not sure what actually happens, but the results are good. With mold-inoculated gauze they cured a man with an acute bone infection...
...navigators, the traditional magnetic compass has the defect of being too crude. Despite modern refinements, it is still essentially a magnetized needle kept pointed north by the earth's magnetic field. It must be corrected constantly by tricky calculations, because of 1) interfering magnetic fields from surrounding metallic objects, and 2) geographical variations in the earth's magnetic field, some of which result from the fact that the magnetic poles are not the earth's true poles...
...Puritan-Protestant Idea. The fact that Beard was no crude materialist has been apparent for years to those who have read his occasional magazine articles. Beard's vision of America has always been rooted in a moral idea, the Puritan-Protestant idea of "take care of your family and lend a helping hand to those who deserve...