Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stopping its fashion studies just short of an autumn forecast, the B.I.S. dolefully predicted that gold-laden lands like the U. S. and Britain "will presumably continue to be faced with the task of absobing large and increasing amounts of new gold, and the continuation of the policy of sterilization will involve them in ever increasing expenses...
England exhausted her iron faster than coal, and now finds it convenient to export coal to such a city as Bilbao, bringing the ships home laden with ore. British capital and coal has enabled the city to build up a steel industry, though three-fourths of the iron that reaches the city is exported to England. Germany has never had sufficient iron. It is no accident, therefore, that the headquarters of the German "volunteers" in Spain have been set up at Devo, thirty miles from Bilbao, and these troops are leading the attempt to reduce the defenses of the Northern...
...commanded by Queen Elizabeth to "annoy the King of Spain in his Indies,"red-bearded little Francis Drake put out from Plymouth in the Golden Hind, entered Magellan Strait, went plundering up the west coast of the New World. Laden with Spanish treasure, he pushed north in search of an Arctic passage back to England. One day in the spring of 1579, he sailed into a "convenient and fit harborough" somewhere near the future site of San Francisco. There he received the homage of native Indians and, according to his chaplain's account, nailed to a "faire great poste...
...stands for horsepower. Chavez tried therein to contrast the luxurious, banana-laden tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where...
...been flowing a long time, has affected many races of men. Last week Potamographer Ludwig's book was ready at last. First readers found it appropriately like its subject: broken by cataracts, meandering, sometimes almost lost in swamps, often muddy, often turbulent, but on the whole predictable and laden with useful silt...