Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became clogged with dust, the heat in the vehicles became unbearable. At Grand Prairie, Alberta, with but 250 miles to go to Edmonton, Musk-Ox called for help. A special train was sent up. Eighty days out of Churchill, Manitoba, the weary men of Musk-Ox were glad to load their snowmobiles on the train, pile on themselves for the ride to their goal...
...Crimson batters opened up in the seventh, when Harper replaced Snow on the mound for BU. After Jack Coppinger singled and Armen Essayan put down a perfect bunt, Phelan walked to load the bases. A double to center by Saul Mariaschin and a single from Don Swegan's bat brought in three runs...
...unconventional XB-35 is the first of 15 which Northrop Aircraft, Inc. is building for the U.S. Army. Fully loaded, it will weigh 104½ tons v. 70-for Boeing's B29. The wing is 7½ feet thick, big enough to house: 1) a 15-man crew; 2) four 3,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines in the wing, with eight-bladed dual-rotation propellers in the trailing edge; 3) enough fuel to fly 10,000 miles nonstop; 4) a bomb load guesstimated as high as 25 tons. By eliminating fuselage and tail surfaces, whose air resistance slows down...
Aside from the inconvenience of its location, Stillman's 65 beds and 9 private rooms simply cannot cope with the load placed on them. Before the war, for months at a time every winter, Stillman was full, and sick students were sent to bed in their rooms because of the lack of space. But the infirmary's 44 years present it with drawbacks beyond space limitations. The concepts of sanitation and isolation under which it was built have been superseded. No 1946 infirmary would have its private rooms without running water and its doorways too narrow to wheel beds through...
...next inning Harvard punched across two more runs. Saul Marlaschin singled through third and advanced two bases when Tuft's hurler Bob Kozman threw Don Swegan's sacrifice bunt wildly past first base. Petrillo walked to load the bases...