Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the most of his meager equipment-a radio signal tracer, an R.F. generator, an oscilloscope, a vacuum-tube voltmeter, a pile of TV parts. Self-educated in math, he taught his students algebra and trigonometry, did not hesitate to pile on the work ("Brother, I really load them"). Though some of his students had been chronic troublemakers in the prison, they soon reformed. All have been perfectly willing to spend hours each night wrestling with such assignments as: "Draw up six different parallel circuits, showing voltage at each point, voltage dropped at each point, the current flowing at each...
...reason for the Russian move is far from clear. If the present system were continued, the government would float bonds every year in order to cover the repayments on matured issues, as is done in most western nations. The government probably faces an especially heavy load of bonds due in the next few years. A short-term moratorium, however, would relieve this difficulty...
...Crimson came in the bottom of the seventh on McMellen's four-run error. With one out, Repetto singled to left, taking second when Tom Bergantino was hit by a pitched ball. Both runners advanced on a wild pitch, and Cleary fouled out. Simourian was purposely passed to load the bases, and McMellen lost Hasting's drive for an error and four runs, making the score...
...general feeling that secretaries over 35 are too set in their ways, too difficult to break into a new job with a new boss, businessmen concentrate on hiring "malleable" younger women. The trouble is that youngsters lack experience, are often unable to keep up with the office work load. Ten years ago a beginner took at least 120 words per minute in shorthand, did 60 in -typing; today, she often takes only about 80 words per minute in shorthand, types 45. Secretarial schools cannot 'boost the standards; company raiders leave them with classrooms half empty long before graduation. Says...
...smoldering jungle, Godfrey's party was also using a lot of Ban, a new underarm deodorant (and Godfrey sponsor) : "We're the first white people who've ever been seen in this part of the country, and these natives and animals are really getting a load of how nice white people smell." Godfrey was also introducing the natives to such civilized amenities as Blue Bonnet Margarine (sponsor): "We are crazy about it here; we're making blueberry pancakes and frying the liver from the wart hog with it. Everything tastes better with bloop blurp margarine...