Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into that tight waistband the Texas oil industry tried to squeeze last winter. Eager as most producers were to cut production enough to save prices, some refused to be constricted. Some went to law, got injunction after injunction against the proration orders of the Texas Railroad Commission. While the courts were voiding orders and the Commission making new ones, the rough & tumble crowd in East Texas took other means. They constructed secret pipe connections, they enlarged valves, to ''steal their own oil." Mr. Holmes estimated that 75,000,000 bbl. of "hot" oil were taken out illegally...
...presided, and it is well known that no one has the prerogative of speaking for Allied Chemical except Orlando Franklin Weber. Allied's president, chairman, master. Mr. Weber, successful head of Allied, vast chemical combination since it was formed in 1920, is a man who holds his cards tight against his vest, smiles saturninely, plays with no partners, keeps his opponents at a respectful distance. Heavy of form, mellifluous of voice, he goes his own way, and has his own way: attends prizefights unknown to the mob, vents his economic theories among his industrial peers, takes no one into...
...ship handled well," was tight-lipped Captain Dresel's only comment...
...courses, rather than those whose reading of twentieth century literature is more or less haphazard. This might be avoided by conducting the course less in the research spirit than is the present English 26. It would need a leader of no ordinary talents, a teacher who stands above the tight world of literary schools and who could cope with a chaos of names. He would have to survey a fairly ordered system of well-known names, such as Conrad, Galsworthy, D. H. Lawrence, and Bernard Shaw; and make order out of the conflicting ideas of the Eliots, the Masefields...
...student beginning German may be honestly advised to substitute German B for the spotty inefficiencies of German A. For an instructor he will have a master rather than a tyro; in subject matter he will find that the dull necessities are compressed to a tight, clear, concise does made palatable by the chocolate chicle of interesting relevancies. Further, and most important, he will compress into one year the stupid translation which occupies the unenlightened who take German A, German 1, and German 2; he will be able at the end of a year of vigorous, stimulating effort...