Word: cruder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years since a similar contest has been staged in Cambridge. With the coming of prohibition and the subsequent popularity of cruder forms of alcohol, beer has been forced to take a back seat position. Authorities on the subject feel that Harvard men today cannot make a decent showing, since lack of practice and bad alcohol have done little to develop undergraduate stomachs...
...culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady of charitarian views, Mary (now Marilyn) met the man of her dreams, who turned out to be an inventor of genius, a gentleman born, and a landed proprietor. All the signs were right; Mary...
...successful: a carburetorless Hornet engine of 525 h. p. had been installed in a Boeing mail plane for actual service. Advantages: direct fuel injection eliminates all carburetion troubles including the danger of ice formation in the carburetor during winter operation. Also, like the Diesel, it permits the use of cruder and less inflammable fuels. Successful tests were made with a "safety" gas recently developed by Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Produced by hydrogenation, this fuel will not ignite below 107° F. ("flash point"). The flash point of ordinary gasolines lies anywhere between...
...perhaps as old as the Press itself, is the foregoing strategy, known in its cruder manifestations as the "we boys" racket ("We boys on the staff want to give you the breaks. . . ."). Twenty-five years ago William Travers Jerome, famed crusading District Attorney of New York, tried unsuccessfully to make it a reason for putting Town Topics, oldtime "society" gossip sheet, out of existence. Last week the editors of Town Topics (still going strong as a 25? biweekly) and of the younger and more venomous Tatler & American Sketch (50? monthly) were in the offices of New York State...
...pornographic literature than any living American, or European. However, in spite of this hearty endorsement, it cannot be repeated too often that this capacity and this knowledge is not a prime requisite for holiness. Hunger, not holiness, must be the explanation of this strange preoccupation with sex in its cruder forms...