Word: gush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hung at the Galerie de Beaune, it consisted of 39 thickly painted canvases depicting sections of expensive real estate in the south of France, all done in a brilliance of color and a gush of technique which suggested the ebullitions of a talented school girl. Explained tanned, bright-eyed, wisecracking Artist Picabia, with an air of deep subtlety: "I painted them because I wanted to." Picabia enthusiasts spoke in awed tones of the master's daring in risking banality by a return to nature. But a growing number of critics called it reversion to type, dismissed Picabia...
...conferences in which writers, researchers, and various specialists, in successive groups of three to 15, examine, weigh, discuss news developments with the managing editors. Requests for more information and verification of facts are wired, telephoned, cabled. Meantime, an immense volume of news-20,000 words an hour-continues to gush in. New conferences are held, old decisions revised, new research begun, stories written, torn apart, rewritten...
...granite fragments shaped like cathedrals, towers, skyscrapers, toadstools. Eighty-two miles from Pocatello is the largest potato-flour mill in the world. At Twin Falls, 42 miles farther, Shoshone Falls drops 212 ft. From the walls of Snake River Canyon, 32 miles on, Idaho's famed Thousand Springs gush enough water to supply all the big cities...
When Mexico reverted to the old subsoil law in 1917 there was a gush of argument whether the law should be retroactive. But Ambassador Dwight Morrow in 1928 sewed up the rights of U. S. companies in an agreement with President Calles which has since been upheld by the Mexican Supreme Court. Mexico's Presidency is now occupied by New Dealing Lázaro Cárdenas. Fortnight ago, after six months of labor trouble in the oil fields which has threatened the stability of the Mexican Government, President Cárdenas disregarded the Calles-Morrow agreement, expropriated some...
...little oil she has downstairs, though the first important strike was made at Hardstoft, Derbyshire, in 1919 when oil was discovered about 3,000 ft. below a field of oat stubble. About 100 tons a year have since been produced. Encouraged by this small but steady uninterrupted gush, the Government in 1934 established State ownership of all domestic oil, hoping to make the Navy independent of foreign supplies. Enthusiastic geologists soon began to talk of the possibility of finding oil along a belt stretching from the west coast of Wales to the east coast of Yorkshire, and in Somerset...