Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This almost perfect technique for extracting oil from the State's underwater territory was not neglected by California oil companies. By 1934 about 100 wells had been drilled by independent companies on town lots at Huntington Beach, whip-stocked down through beach property owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and out into the State oil pool. Caught at this, the companies were penalized only by being forced to pay 14% royalties or less on the stolen oil. Next year a special investigating committee found that Standard had also been tapping the State pool with vertical wells. Standard offered...
...eighth Dick Walsh took up the burden and pitched an almost perfect relief role. Only one man reached first, and he by a walk, as the southpaw faced but seven batters...
...frivolity, feels at the velvet ribbon about here wrinkled neck, and then, to call attention to here irritation, rattles here program violently. None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first-class Irish setter...
...mile. An estimated audience of 50,000 televiewers in an area of 7,500 sq. mi. watched the screens of their little receiving sets (average cost: $400) as the Procession passed, the King & Queen bowed close up, the excited Princesses waved and giggled. By no means perfect, this visual report was acclaimed by all its subscribers as marvelously satisfying and the London Times proudly thundered: ''The supreme trial has brought a notable triumph...
...just after he has fainted from disgust during a 1917 bayonet drill and is being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members of a German machine-gun nest, he murmurs, "What a dish!'' and bowls them over like clay ducks in a shooting gallery...