Word: quickness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...conservation committee, president of the Independent Oil Operators of Southern California. Without the support of "Judge" Reiter, the Wilbur plan could admittedly get nowhere - and "Judge" Reiter, an "oil oyster" (i. e., an operator who takes the threat of government dic tation as so much salt water), was not quick to give his support. Lyons Act. Last year the California legislature passed the Lyons Act, designed to limit oil production indirectly by limiting the production of the natural gas which .forces the oil to the surface. The state's efforts to enforce this conservation measure have led only...
...Quick Profits. Throughout 1928 the stock market showed a continual trend upward. In incomes of under $25,000, 15% of the profits were from assets held less than two years, probably indicating the extent of profitable speculation. In the groups of higher incomes 10.3% was from this same source, against 6.92% the year before...
...bumped] by an automobile"). Significant details were given. The car was un piccolo (a little one), the baby was un povero piccolo (a poor little one), and the cause of the accident was non bene accertate (not precisely known). Editor Count Dalla Torre weighs 186 Ibs. ; is blond, stocky, quick at gestures, intelligent but slow of mind. Of ancient Venetian lineage, he has been a practicing newspaper man nearly all his life. Sur rounded by Italy, he edits in a little isle of refuge from Fascist censorship, says anything he and the Pope pleases, but knows that if he goes...
Pilgrims fled in terror, many fell, panic threatened. "The camel! The camel!" screamed some of the quick-witted. From the rear of the procession a brave cameleer spurred his loose-lipped beast forward to give the conciliatory bite. Fearful of its ears, the mad elephant fled trumpeting to the river, was eventually rounded up by two workmanlike tame elephants...
Criticism. Most U. S. educators, jealous of the fame of John Dewey, are quick to point out that Dewey, in 1902, was working with auto-education in his University of Chicago-school. The interpretation of his philosophy in the education of young children also emphasized the importance of correlating the infant's use of its hands to its brain...