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Lubricating oil is so scarce that gas-station operators supply only favorite customers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lubricating oils are something the Allies particularly hate to see leak into Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lubricating the entire fault would require enormous amounts of drilling, flooding and pumping.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lubricating the broken shaft with some cocoanut oil, Mr. McKay told Andy and Terence to hold Ellerton's arm tightly, so as to compress the veins and arteries, and consequently numb the limb.

From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Lubricating the blunt point of a stubby pencil he set to work.

From Sundown Slim by Fischer, Anton Otto