Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only half of these got leukemia. Dr. Schwartz's conclusion: the prisoners, being healthy and not predisposed to leukemia, had reacted the way most normal human beings do, and had made antibodies against the leukemia virus in the brain fluid. These antibodies made their serum work like a crude vaccine, which protected half the mice...
Boiled Bootstraps. Viewed in the terms of the survival manuals, the efforts of the four young Russian sailors were fairly crude. A storm on Jan. 17 had torn landing craft No. 36 from its moorings in the Russian-held Kurile Islands, north of Japan, and driven it out to sea. The four aboard had been unable to catch any fish, made no attempt to trap sea birds, failed to maintain a system of regular watches or to develop a distress signal to attract passing ships (three passed on the horizon without seeing them). Even worse, they had apparently made...
ALASKAN OIL BOOM is promised by a new well brought in by Standard Oil Co. of California on Kenai Peninsula, 40 miles south of Anchorage. The discovery improves prospects for construction of a $4,000,000, 22-mile pipeline between the field and Cook Inlet, where the crude oil will be shipped to West Coast refineries...
...system was much too crude to be Parisian, and Gabrielle Gaucher, 48, decided that the simplest solution was to introduce the call girl to France. Renting an office on Rue Laugier, not far from the Etoile, Gabrielle and a bookkeeper assistant soon assembled a list of some 400 personable girls. As the French once adopted the word "weekend," they borrowed "call girl," though some preferred to Frenchify it to téléfilles. When the clients came calling, Gabrielle had ready an album containing pictures of her téléfilles, and a brief paragraph that stated whether...
...scraped together $25,000, sent out a crude, twelve-page catalogue of wearing apparel to 250,000 refugees picked from card indexes. His prices were aimed at the low-budget housewife-and the housewives liked what they got. Within eight months Neckermann was doing a $2.4 million a year business...