Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Airplanes cannot reach distant oversea areas under their own power with any effective military load, and therefore cannot operate there offensively or defensively until supplied with weapons and fuel...
...Dodge began his work at Beirut as University Y. M. C. A. secretary. During the World War he carried the double load of school duties and relief work among the refugees and war victims. In the latter he promulgated the idea of giving the Syrians work to do, such as roadmaking, sewing, and weaving, at the same time that relief was administered. Mr. Dodge's intimate labors in this activity made him highly popular in Asia Minor...
...brought back a bit of romantic spice and flavor in a recital of the most thrilling experiences of his life in this week's "Collier". There is a story of a balky uncle with a load of dynamite on his back and explosive bullets zipping all around; another of a colony of lepers threatening to break past his guard and infect a whole city with their dread disease. Amazing recitations they are, truly, but the French peasant ploughing up an unexploded shell probably gets the same thrill in his own back yard...
...Federal prohibition law has put a "staggering" load on the courts. Pending at the end of the year were 22,339 cases, although 46,609 cases had been terminated, nearly 4,000 cases more than the previous year...
...portrait Miss Ingram, he is said to have expressed great surprise, remarking that he thought he had already won every prize possible for the Academy to give. Quite explicable is Mr. Hassam's amaze at this last straw dropped so courteously on his already prodigious load of honors. The present portrait, painted several years ago, previously won the Philadelphia Art Club Gold Medal, though it has never before been exhibited in Manhattan. His pictures hang in over 20 museums. In 1920 alone, he received 25 important medals. Among his best-known pictures are: Church at Old Lyme, Isles...