Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Administration catnip crop near Arlington, had failed. Since catnip oil is essential to the successful trapping activities of Biological Survey felinophobes, the Federal crop would be nursed more carefully this year at Saratoga, N. Y., about 100 miles from White Pine Camp...
Contrasts. The foreign policies of Poincaré and Briand are, re- spectively, as flaming war-oil and quenching peace-water. Briand has just fought and been defeated by Herriot in a political death grapple which Briand described on the floor of the Chamber as a "per- sonal duel." MM. Briand, Herriot, Painlevé and Sarraut are of the Left; MM. Poincaré, Tardieu and Bokanowski are of the Right...
President Calles has deemed Mexico potent enough to defy the foreigner at last. He secured passage for bills enforcing the anti-foreign land and oil exploitation clauses of the Constitution of 1917, as the present year opened (TIME, Jan. 25). He ordered the expulsion of all foreign clerics (TIME, Feb. 22), relying for authority simply on the anti-religious clauses of the Constitution...
...Upon appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1921-24) he resigned directorates with Sinclair Oil & Refining Co., J. G. White Mfg. Corp., Broadway Improvement Co., White Motor...
Mules Near the black mouth of the prison mine at Lansing, Kansas, a kindly warden stood conversing with his deputy, suddenly turned with tautened lips to watch the sullen file of oil-skinned prisoners shuffle down into the shaft. Defiant of 13 unarmed guards, a seared murderer, a slack-jawed pervert, another and another, turned to gaze with loathing at the man who held four of their number captives to be chastised like beasts for complaining at lack of sheets...