Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter pointed out that when the courts were available for tournament and casual players, in additions to the squads, they were barely able to handle the load. Therefore, under present conditions, with enrollments high and facilities cut down by the veterans' housing program, the normal arrangement is out of the question. There just isn't enough room...
This year President Conant will add another assignment to his load. Out of the classroom since 1933, he has volunteered to guest-lecture in the new general education courses in natural science. His recipe for teaching science to nonscientists: a new type of course dealing with the "tactics and strategy" of science, putting a minimum emphasis on factual knowledge, a maximum on scientific method and historical approach...
...last weeks of summer, determined movie customers stood in line, the trade press reported, and through Labor Day "box offices bulged . . with the biggest load of coin many had ever taken over a weekend. . . "What they stood in line to see, according to Variety...
...strictly political strike of their own the day before the maritime strike became general, A.F.L. longshoremen refused to load one UNRRA ship in Manhattan because its cargo was destined for Yugoslavia...
There was this load of general supplies he'd gotten on the swindle sheet. And a pile of score cards from Braves Field and Fenway Park. And the slick program from the Longwood Cricket Club. There was the radio with a crack through its plastic side suffered the night he'd been a little athletic with an empty beer bottle. That would have to go. All this and only one small suitcase. There was a pile of magazines and newspapers Vag had hoped to take with him, the clippings from the Sporting News and the columns from the Stock Market...