Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trotted onto the field at Boston's Fenway Park for the first of a three-game series with the Red Sox, DiMaggio was far from mid-season physical condition, but a load had been taken off his mind and he seemed to feel nine feet tall. In his first time at bat, he lashed out a sharp single. The next time, he slammed a home run, drove in the runs that won the game. Red Sox fans came to their feet and gave him one of the loudest and longest ovations ever heard in Fenway Park. Joe was back...
...having a fixed number of shares, M.I.T. issued new shares whenever anyone wanted to buy-and thus kept increasing its investment capital. It computes the share price each day at the actual market value of the stocks then owned by the company (plus a salesman's commission, or "load," of 7½%). Whenever anyone wants to sell his shares, M.I.T. buys them back at a price calculated in the same manner, without commission...
...York City. Most of the traffic, on unscheduled flights, is handled by ex-service pilots with war-surplus planes-like the Strato Freight Co., which operated the Commando in last week's crash. It hauls the islanders for $60 one way, flies whenever it has a load. It had operated strictly within the letter of the law. Refurbished and approved in April by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the Commando was actually flying 500 pounds under its gross weight limit, 45,000 pounds. In Puerto Rico last week, there was agitation to tighten up the regulations: obviously something was wrong...
...week's end, Xochimilco's water level had risen to 15 inches. The boats were out again, with fresh flowers spelling out their names, Juanita and Maria, Esmeralda and Flor. Old Pacheco, poling a load of tourists along a canal, waved airily to his son Tomas, who was passing in the canoa Laura. "We're not finished yet, are we?" he shouted...
That is why, in the three races so far this year, the Crimson has ignored the convention of sprinting when they are comfortably in the load. Were they to be pressed, however, the boat would go up to 40 for the final minute, and it is at such times that a crew's ability is really put to the test. It is only the instinctive ability to row well that can put a man through such a test...