Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northwest Passage could provide the answer. If the Manhattan's journey is a success, the way would be open to haul North Slope crude to the U.S. for 60? a barrel less than the cost of piping the oil from Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free southern Alaska port of Valdez for shipment to the Pacific Coast. This would not only make North Slope drilling practical and profitable, but would encourage development of Alaska's huge deposits of iron, sulfur, copper and other minerals. The Manhattan expedition could provide other benefits as well. By opening up the Northwest...
...that three-score-and-ten, though it may be long enough for a very crude sort of village life, isn't long enough for a complicated civilization like ours? Flinders Petrie has counted nine attempts at civilization made by people exactly like us; and every one of them failed just as ours is failing. They failed because the citizens and statesmen died of old age or overeating before they had grown out of schoolboy games and savage sports and cigars and champagne. The signs of the end are always the same: Democracy, Socialism, and Votes for Women...
Secret Formulas. The formula for each additive is closely guarded, and manufacturers discuss the ingredients only in vague terms. One major ingredient is usually polyisobutylene, which is made by combining molecules of certain chemicals with a butane derivative of crude oil. It produces approximately the same results as far costlier additives in improving the viscosity, or thickness, of oil-and can be bought at the rate of 920 a gallon...
...that he would not let the Israelites go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 11:29)? Or kill everybody on the earth except the few people in Noah's Ark? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame! Your sectarianism may be less crude than at the Rhode Island College, but sectarianism is basically the same everywhere--a blind and blinding belief which will not permit the sectarian to make free use of accumulating knowledge or other evidence which disproves or casts doubt on the basic sectarian commitment...
...amused at your discussion of pickpockets [June 20]. As an ex-member of a whiz mob (pickpocket group), it is evident to me that the kind of people Detective Inspector Candlish has had his experience with are pretty crude operators. Nor is his information entirely correct. A stall is not a "runner"-whatever that is supposed to be-a stall is an extremely skilled kinetic psychologist who knows exactly how to walk alongside or in front of the "mark" (victim) so that he is forced to slow down or turn aside, right into the wire. This is called "framing...