Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much change in his meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained, serve as a buffer between farm prices and store prices. Illustration: The corn duty raise of 10¢ per bushel would affect corn products (flakes, syrup, oil, etc.) by only a fraction of ordinary market fluctuations in corn, which sometimes are as much as 50¢ per bushel in a season without altering retail prices...
...Sinclair's "thing" was a go-day sentence for "contemptuous" refusal to answer questions the U. S. Senate asked him about the oil scandals. Drummed into confinement by gloating editorials throughout the land, he had spent his first night on cot 62 in the prison dormitory. Clad in silk pajamas he had sat most of the night on the edge of cot 62, smoking cigarets. The snores of 60 roommates kept him awake...
After breakfast he was fingerprinted, given No. 10,520 and assigned to the jail pharmacy by Superintendent William L. Peake. Thirty years ago in Kansas, before he shot his foot and got the insurance money that started him in the oil game, Harry Ford Sinclair was a registered pharmacist. Now he was given a white coat and set to rolling quinine pills for sick convicts, of which there were seven in the jail last week...
...there will be held an exhibition of some of the work of several members of the staff of the School of Architecture, in the Old Fogg Museum. Professors Haffner and Conant, and Messrs. Murphy, Warren, and Ripley will be represented in the exhibition, which will include water colours, oil paintings, drawings, and other media...
...different departments of the graduate school. First prizes of $200 each were awarded to Henry Siggins Leonard 2G, of Newton, for his essay on "Plato's Theory of Logical Division" and to Chester Linn Shaver 1G, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, for an essay named "The Moral Idealism of Aeschylus." "Hunting Oil with Dynamite," by Lewis Don Leet 2G, of Cambridge, and "Aspects of the Control of Animal Conduct," by Theodore James Blanchard Stier 4G, both brought second prize awards of $100 to their authors...