Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a dirty piece of paper from the wide, ragged sleeve of his shinel, and scowled at it. After a few steps he stuffed the paper back carefully, stared for a moment at the bent backs of the prisoners, then searched the strained faces of a new load of commuters just leaving the station...
Almost equally prominent as a causative factor is the shortage of young men, who normally carry the chief load. Probably hardest hit by this problem is the economics department, currently holding tutorial under a two year suspension, which will force reconsideration next year...
...desirability for honors. Because of the present hair-splitting standards of the graduate schools, any chemistry major who plans on advanced work must aim at least for a cum laude, and to qualify for his Latin suffix must straddle himself with two extra half-courses. But this additional load is not supplemented with any tutorial assistance and the student must assimilate this extra helping by himself, without the benefit of well-versed personal guidance. Despite the claim that lab sections are the nearest thing possible to group tutorial, few of the section men become well-acquainted with their students...
This mountainous load of work resulted in 17 bills being sent up Pennsylvania Avenue for the President's signature. Only two are of even passing importance--one an exemption from taxation of Mr. Rockefeller's gift to the United Nations, the other an extension of the war-time rate of certain excise taxes. The rest concern such vital issues as annual rates of pay for Senate clerical staffs, the Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, installation of a storm drain under certain lands in Los Angeles, and payments to Switzerland for the sinking of the Awa Maru...
These elections completed the list of captain for next winter. George Hauptfuhrer and Pete Fuller were elected Tuesday to load the basketball and wrestling squads for the coming season...