Word: load
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relieve the taxpayer without impairing the credit of the nation; for the future credit of the nation and relief to the taxpayer are in the long run inextricably interwoven. I believe that although we are still in a series of transition years we have already passed the peak load of taxation, and we may hope soon to have left behind us the calamitous years of trade depression. But our hopes may be frustrated by untoward events on the Continent or untoward events at home. Industrial peace and reduced taxation which is the offspring of peace, can do more than anything...
...similar way the rates on cement are based upon Gary, Ind. If a farmer in a middle western center goes to a factory to buy a load of cement, he is charged the freight rate from Gary even if he hauls it back in his own truck...
...airplane incorporates many unique features of construction. It is built almost entirely of metal, which is rapidly superseding wood in the construction of aircraft. Each wing, instead of having two main strength members known as " spars," has a number of such spars which divide up the load between them. Since one or more of these spars can be pierced without the entire wing failing, invulnerability to shrapnel fire is secured. Another valuable feature is the wing cooling or radiation system. Instead of the ordinary automobile type of radiator, which increases the air resistance, the cooling water is pumped through small...
...will deny that pillars of antiquity in the fabric of certain human institutions preserve for them a certain charm and dignity. However, where such pillars are substituted for scientific pillars capable of shouldering the increased load with less strain, grave danger is unnecessarily involved. It cannot possibly be that Harvard has extended the rule of the survival of the fittest in its fullest sense. This is impossible, for it is opposed to reason...
...latest revelation has, however, gone too far in the direction of realism. It belies itself. The "Mayflower", of all impeccable ships, is now accused of carrying cows, and actually,--pigs. The horror of the imputation would be unspeakable,--but fortunately we know better. With the authentic load of hymn-books, blunderbusses, bed-warmers and spinning-wheels, could there have been also room for swine? The question is rhetorical; there could not. But the trend of things is obvious. How soon will someone discover that Douglas wrote the Gettysburg Address...