Word: oil
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...doctor at Pine Ridge, the soldiers disarming the whole reservation and shooting down the defenceless Indians and afterwards chasing and killing the women. Human nature is the same the world over. We have been barbaric, we have been cruel, but you take a poor negro, cover him with oil and burn him at the stake. We have not done this for a hundred years, and yet you are a civilized people...
...College Library has received a very valuable and interesting early portrait of Chaucer, painted in oil on an oak panel, by bequest of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton. The inscription on its back states that this picture was presented to Benjamin Dyke in 1803, at which time it had been preserved in the family of its donor, Miss Frances Lambert, for more than three centuries. In recent years, it has been known as the Seddon portrait. It was bought, after Mr. Seddon's death, by Mr. Fairfax Murray, who later sold it to Mr. James Loeb. Mr. Loeb presented...
...fire, fanned by the high northwest wind, had not only burned over an area of about half a mile wide and over two miles long in Chelsea, but had also spread rapidly in East Boston. One of the worst features of the fire was the explosion of the oil tanks of the Tidewater Oil Company and the Leonard & Ellis Oil Company, which are on the Chelsea River. The blazing oil started several small fires in East Boston, in addition to burning two large oil barges holding 5000 gallons each, and three fire engines...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Recent History of the Standard Oil Company." Mr. H. B. Platt, University...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Recent History of the Standard Oil Company." Mr. H. B. Platt. University...