Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months at the headwaters of the Amazon. One of his comrades was drowned in a river whirlpool; he himself nigh died of a jungle rheum. Hostile tribes, insects, vampire bats and reptiles beset his wanderings but he survived with tales to tell of unsuspected gold, silver, coal and oil deposits; and of being initiated, at rites which no woman may attend, into a freemasonry of bronze-skinned jungle nomads. Dr. McGovern, who though still in his twenties has scoured the globe's face from London to holy Lasa, was in time to authenticate a newspaper report of a Negro...
...calendars than good paintings. Critics have hinted that Miss Cassatt might have painted better if she had been married; maternity would then have had less fascination for her. This is a shallow suggestion; if she had borne children she might not have made paintings. She projected her instinct in oil and, since she possessed a first class intellect, and submitted herself to rigid discipline, she learned how to paint superbly...
...Standard Oils. Two Manhattan specialists on Standard Oil stocks- Carl H. Pforzheimer and Jenks, Gwynne & Co.-have been separately figuring the probable dividends of the companies which constitute this group. Last week their collated, estimates showed that, for the six months ending June 30, the score and more constituent companies would disburse $91,594,211 in dividends, far more than the $77,244,753 for the same period last year. The dividends for only April, May and June of this year- $50,792,688-will aggregate almost as much as for all of 1912. Deaths. The American Road Builders...
However, it elected Baptist Dr. C. A. Barbour, President of the Rochester Theological Seminary, a trustee to succeed the late A. C. Bedford (Standard Oil...
...increasing cordiality of public opinion among recently belligerent nations, but it is equally notable as another manifestation of that international mind which it is safe to assume is gaining more and more intelligent citizens of the world. It is not only in material things, in commerce and oil and rubber that we are becoming internationally-minded, but also in things of the mind and of the spirit. That Russian and English delegates should be sitting next to German and Indian philosophers here next September is a hopeful sign for the future of philosophy and a tribute to the University where...