Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geology falls in the Division of Geological Sciences, which includes what is left of Geography, but undergraduates concentrate in straight Geology. Most concentrators do not go beyond the bachelor's degree; those who continue with graduate study are usually aiming for positions with mining and oil Companies, or in state and federal geological surveys...
...will accept without evasion the severest punishment, even to the extent of being boiled in oil or having my physical self dismembered into many parts as a so-called war criminal . . . Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is most urgently required . . . I hope now to convert the hostilities into peace and save the people. My heart is as clear as pure water...
Producer Babb, sparkplug of this unusual moviemaking team, pushes Mom and Dad as if it were snake oil. The film is shown only to unmixed audiences after a town has been saturated with a ballyhoo campaign that leaves no one but the livestock unaware of the chance to learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help...
...Folger's players, who had to use the Folger's boiler room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...
...Angeles Airport, which is closed down 5% of the time by soupy weather. After a round of speeches and fanfare, Mayor Fletcher Bowron tripped a switch that turned on the 392 burners. Billows of black smoke rose and drifted towards the nearby town of Inglewood; observers were drenched with oil droplets blown out of the burners before igniting; automobile windshields were spattered with grime...