Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exodus from Plenty. The exodus did not mean that the field was running dry -far from it. West Edmond has yielded only some 60,000,000 of its estimated 600,000,000 barrels of oil. But at a time when the nation is fast using up its known oil reserves, West Edmond is flagrantly wasting its supply. To save the greatest possible amount of what remains, Oklahoma's oil-regulating Corporation Commission ordered "unitization" of the field, i.e., operating it as if it were a single lease. This was the most drastic step yet taken by any state...
...gotta be a technician to know when you make 'em. . . . New York and 52nd Street-that's what messed up jazz. Them cats play too much music -a whole lot of notes, weird notes. . . . That don't mean nothing. . . . You've got to carry a melody...
Jake began calling his new engineer friend Coach Roche. The Coach was a fanatic on psychology and energy conservation. In "third-stage" tennis, as Roche calls the big-time game, he says that players are often so evenly matched that an iota of stamina cdn mean the difference between victory and defeat. He argued that it was scientifically sound to press only on the right points. One time to press: when serving from the left court; the two big points, "thirty-fifteen" and "ad," begin there and it is less hazardous (for a right-handed player) to come into...
With the approach of the first millennium 947 years ago, says Mounier, man also looked to the destruction of his world. "The word 'apocalypse' has become synonymous, in the contemporary mind, with catastrophe and terror. This is a gross misunderstanding. I do not mean that the [10th Century] Christians . . . felt no holy terror at the idea of judgment and divine justice. They were neither better nor worse than we are, but they viewed their weaknesses from a high moral perspective. They thought that Justice would be severe, but they knew that the severity would be just. . . . Even when...
Planners figured that the scheme would more than double present commercial production, would also mean development of new planes capable of handling heavy bulk loads. The services would benefit directly by tagging all federal-subsidized planes as part of the military reserve...