Word: ranney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventor of the new technique, a grey-thatched, mild-mannered engineer named Leo Ranney, beamed triumphantly at his guests. His oil mine had got off to a good start. If it lived up to its beginnings, Ranney had hit on a simple way to make old oilfields gush again. Pennsylvania's old wells, though they still yield the richest crude oil in the world, have slowed down to an average of less than half a barrel a day from each well. From his single shaft at Franklin, Ranney expects to get more than...
...Ranney's well actually works on the same principle as a coal mine. In coal fields, miners dig a shaft down to the layer of coal, then work horizontally through the layer, cutting the coal away...
...George B. Sohier Prize of $250, for the best honors thesis in English or Modern Literature, was divided between Mrs. Sibyilo O. Crane, Radcliffe '42, of Cambridge, Mass., for her thesis "Heinrich Heine: Critic of Political and Social Ideas in France under the July Monarchy"; and Frederic G. Ranney, Jr. '42, of London, England, for his thesis, "Alien Plain: A Study of Primitive Feeling in Rudyard Kipling's Verse...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $170 and a silver medal, for the best poem on any subject, was won by F. Gar- ner Ranney '42, of London, England, for his elegy "Nisi Dominus, Frustra...
Newbold R. Landon, Baltimore, Md.; Solomon B. Levine, Brookline; Paul T. Lowry, Price, Ut.; Joseph M. Miller, Brookline; Herbert A. Potash, Cambridge; Frederic G. Ranney, Jr., London, EngEng.; William A. Reed, Glasgow, Mont.; Donald M. Roynolds, Mauette, Wash.; John C. Robbins, Jr., Cloveland Heights, O.; Allan M. Sachs, New York City; Lowis N. Sandler, Verous, N. J.; Albert J. Smith, Indianapolis, Ind.; John J. Sepka, Elizabeth, N. J.; Edmund B. Spacth, Jr., Philadelphia...