Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical of the confusion reigning in the oil business were these rapid overturns in Texas Co. Oil's great bugaboo has been the unbelievably prolific East Texas oil field. It was discovered in 1930, a huge underground lake of oil, 32 miles long and three miles wide. Wildcatters and great oil companies had soon planted 10.000 derricks over it, drilled 10,000 shafts 3,600 ft. deep to tap the subterranean flood. As the oil spouted through 10,000 pinholes in the earth's crust it greased the skids of oil prices. Tighter & tighter the industry drew...
...about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon him, he is no more content with the street, the passers-by in their bright clothes, the scented dust that fills the air; but longs for a sudden furtherance...
...people of the United States are being absorbed by efforts to fight the depression in this country, and to arrange for the united attack upon the depression in the coming world parley, an almost unnoticed, but not therefore unimportant movement is going forward throughout Europe. The whole continent is rapidly crystallizing into two groups: those in favor of, and those opposed to, revision of the treaties of Versailles. Especially rapid has been this solidification ever since Italy and England came out in favor of some kind of change in the status quo. France, whose whole foreign policy is based upon...
...below zero Fahrenheit. Investigators had almost reached that point before by compressing helium gas and drawing off the heat of compression. This procedure brought them to - 451.84° F. when the helium gas turned liquid, to -457.6° F. when liquid helium turned solid. By compression and rapid cooling evaporation Professor William Hendrik Keesom of the University of Leyden last year reduced solid helium to -458.142° F. That seemed the ultimate, for Absolute Zero is theoretically unattainable...
...survey or rapid review of the elements of French it is unexcelled. It may be taken by students who wish to brush up on the language for one course credit. Although the daily classes are necessarily tedious, the personality of the instructor does a great deal to relieve the grind...