Word: oils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Institute professors have had a busy summer. The geologists have been off on the important oil searching parties, the chemists have been working on poison gases and other problems for the government, while the civil and mechanical engineers have had their hands full with the Government schools and the summer schools and the two student camps...
...learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality of oil, and turn their energies to planting potatoes...
...gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when he was near to oblivion from pain, they applied the torch to the oil-soaked fagots and aroused his spirit to a terrible death in the fire. It is noted that a few urged that he be shot. They should be honored, for they were merciful...
...Harry Hodgson, of Athens, Ga., this annual prize of $25 is given for the best thesis on some business subject. "The Value of Fertilizers in Increasing Crop Production" has been selected as the subject for the essays, but students may write upon "The Marketing of Cotton-Seed Products (oil or cotton-seed meal)," if they so choose...
Company M will form under arms on Boylston street outside Persis Smith Hall at 7.30 A. M. Members will provide themselves with rags with which to oil their rifles after drill...