Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scholarspeak is easy to pick up. Anyone can master its few mechanical rules. Use the passive voice whenever possible, keep sentences and paragraphs long, verbs neutral and even drab, and nouns abstract. Load your sentences up with these abstract nouns until they're just about ready to break. But above all, of course, keep the tone dry and pompous...
Aside from the financial and administrative intricacies, and the additional load of up to thirty-five people in the dining rooms, opposition will arise from unimaginative House members unwilling to see a change in the atmosphere...
After yielding nine runs in the first two innings to Yale's intramural champs, the game Kirkland team suddenly began to find the range and cut into Calhoun's load...
...Once the major headquarters for Arab slavers, it is a lady island, pungent with the odor of cloves and the glamour of Araby. Tourists can ride the streets in dilapidated rickshas, visit the old Arab waterfront fort and the harbor, where old wooden dhows with odd-looking lateen sails load up for trips to the mainland. They can buy French perfumes, Indian craft jewelry, or copies of the famed, huge oaken "elephant doors," which are covered with spikes to keep elephants from leaning on them. They are an unusual curio, since Zanzibar does not have elephants and never...
...Science students already carry a heavy load of difficult courses. Tutorial would only tend to crowd their schedule more and tempt them to give up non-science courses or essential science and math courses outside their field...