Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partner in Minot DeBlois and Maddison, a Boston real estate firm; Fredrick M. Eaton '27, partner in Shearman, Sterling and Wright, New York law firm; John E. Lawrence '31, partner in the Boston cotton firm James Lawrence and Co.; and Albert L. Nickerson '33, president of Socony Mobil Oil Co. have also been nominated...
...nursemaids, who are highly paid technicians, for the computers than to keep the lower-paid clerks. Finally, poor programing for the computer can leave an expensive machine idle. Automation experts estimate that there is time available to rent on at least half the computers in the U.S. Says Gulf Oil Engineer Warren Davis: "It's just like hiring a floor full of morons. You've got to keep them busy. They can't do a thing unless you tell them exactly what to do in the most minute detail...
...Hans Hartung's T 55-28 has airy life about it, yet hardly seems to justify Expert Alfred Barr's considered statement that Hartung, 54, a German turned Parisian, is "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." In 3 Avril 54, Pierre Soulages' black, plank-broad oil smears do not seem a great advance over the similar smears that first brought him attention a decade ago. Donald Hamilton Eraser's Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact with nature: it seems to represent the crumpled ghost of a sailing ship plowing icy seas into...
...their roots ever deeper into the rich brown soil of the ancient Fertile Crescent, that strife-ridden slice of the mordacious Middle East which includes the Bedouins of Syria, the Riffs of Jordan, the fiercely patriotic people of brave little Israel, the Nomads of the Saudi-Arabian wastelands, the oil-rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser nears the nadir of its nebulous naughtiness, forcing the great powers to consider, with great searching of souls and scratching of navels, the threat...
...Nova Scotia farmer from the herring-heavy shores of Pugwash (pop. 950), Eaton first thought of entering the ministry but soon changed his mind after a visit to his uncle, who was pastor of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. One of the parishioners was Standard Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who gave the 17-year-old youth a job as a clerk on his estate outside Cleveland...