Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...logic displayed by the gentlemen of the Tribune seems muddy at best. Certainly Greenland is not the rich prize that Germany would covet to help support it through a long war or even provide it with raw materials in time of peace. A second theory that has been much mentioned is that Greenland would be valuable to Germany as a naval base or air base. There seems to be little possibility of such a move in any but the very distant future, however. Even at the beginning of the war, the German navy was not strong enough to carry...
...German imports of Buna-N (some 340.000 Ib. in 1938), now cut off by war. But Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) also has U. S. rights for the manufacture of tire-Buna (Buna-S) and U. S. rubbermen hope for eventual independence from a tree-grown, seaborne, cartel-priced raw material...
...piece of natural history in human terms: the story of a queen bee. Eula Varner is a semi-superhuman embodiment of unmitigated sex, already embarrassingly female at the age of eight. As she ripens, the male community establishes itself in quavering, fighting concentrics of courtship: first raw boys, then slick sports in shiny buggies. But it is Flem who finally gets her. He takes her to Texas...
...Raw Food Costs...
...conclusive check on Harvard's food purchasing efficiency could have been made only if it had been possible to discover what other large institutions in the Boston area have to pay for raw food. All that the Committee could find was that Harvard buys at a considerable saving over the price quoted in the market. It is not impossible that other large institutions, with a purchasing power comparable in magnitude to Harvard's, may purchase food at an even greater saving over the market price. Admitting that its findings are far from being absolutely conclusive, the Committee nevertheless believes that...