Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...syllable whence the Etruscans presumably inherited the arch, what the Romans did with it, why the churches of the Middle Ages were made so tall, how joy went out of art with Christianity and was imported back from Moorish Spain to Provence, how painting began in Italy, became oil painting in Flanders. Dogmatic homilies together with disarming confessions of his own amateur standing appear in every chapter. If the reader wants to know something about Chinese art, advises the sensible lecturer, let him get Chinese brushes and ink and try it. Scattered throughout the book are no less than...
...last week, so many commercial broadcasting contracts had been signed by colleges all over the U. S. that none of them caused much comment. Atlantic Refining's program this year includes the schedules of 21 colleges, excluding Yale, whose home games will be sponsored by the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. of New York. Ohio State, having held out against the trend (together with Minnesota, Princeton and Harvard, which still held out this year), finally succumbed-but not exclusively-to the Kellogg Co. (Corn Flakes), which also has contracts with the University of Oklahoma, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Nebraska and Fordham. Michigan...
...teach people to live in a space 7 ft. by 7 ft. the only U. S. licensed School of Trailer Economics accompanies the show. From a swank chocolate-colored trailer Captain Jose L. Misfud lectured to trailees on trailer commissary and linen, clothing and bedspread supply, oil and gasoline oven operation, trailer heating and sanitation...
...High, Wide, and Handsome" brings Irene Dunne, Dorothy Lamour, and Randolph Scott together in a pleasant hodgepodge of conflict between true love, a railroad company, oil drillers, and carnival workers. Of course love concerns all and though for a time Miss Dunne ands keen competition from a pipe line for first place in Mr. Scott's affections the story gives her both wealth and the object of her desire before the final scores...
...seem Miss Dunn, a carnival singer, spends two weeks with Scott when her circus wagon burns and marries him. At the moment of this marriage, an oil well suddenly sponts with gusto on Scott tries to run a pipe line to the refinery nearby but encounters labor difficulties since the time given by the refinery for the construction of the line is too short to suit the workmen. When most of his men have walked out hard guys employed by a railroad trying to gain control of the well start to tear up that portion of the line already laid...