Word: load
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single policy- almost any policy-the miners would be back at work today. The Chancellor of the Exchequer should have been given a free rein to enforce his peace proposals upon the owners." Premier Baldwin replied: "We cannot force an agreement by legislation." Significantly the Premier went on to load the Miners' Federation with the blame for continuing the coal strike. Thus, he repudiated by implication Mr. Churchill's stand. Statistics released last week indicated that British coal production is now at one-tenth of normal, and iron and steel production at one-fourteenth of normal...
...reasons, briefly, are these: the modern college president, caught between the devil and the sea of trustee and faculty opinion, crippled by his load of financial responsibility, torn at by his mis-understanding undergraduates is, at best, a harried and futile dictator, at worst, the ancillary official of major interests without the college; the modern board of trustees are a group, unskilled in matter academic, educational--men of affairs without the interest of the college at heart, middle class, bread and butter people as ineffective as they are powerful; the faculty is a poorly paid group, subservient to their extra...
...Company suffered," said Sir Eric, "from a lack of sufficient planes to cope with the peak load of traffic during the summer. . . . Our loss was in great measure due to the writing off of obsolete equipment. . . . The real test of the soundness of this company's policy will be shown by the report for our third year...
...divisions, each division to have its own instruction and examinations, and in some instances its own case books. Important second and third year classes have been divided into sections. Through these arrangements classes will not exceed 180, which is thought a suitable number. To take a heavy load from the Dean's office, the following administrative change is made...
Since his back had felt no load, Virtue still in him abode; So he swiftly made his own Those last spoils...