Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday's race the third University crew was given a head start of two lengths, and was able to keep in the load as far as the Harvard bridge. At the bridge the 1929 crew was leading the University shell by three-quarters of a length...
Wilkins. Safely returned to Fairbanks after their fourth hop over the 560 miles of desolate northern Alaska between Fairbanks and their advanced base, Point Barrow, Captain George H. Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson took on a load of freight heavier than ever-4,200 Ib. of fuel and food-and soared northward again. This time their radio was silent for hours that stretched into two days. The men in Fairbanks hoped it was only a wrist Wilkins had sprained during the second round-trip that was preventing him from operating the monoplane Alaskan's wireless outfit...
...University's newest changes in educational lines have been aimed at minimizing the deadening influence of such men. And the cause of the phenomenon is not much farther to seek. Colleges--that is to say, the machinery of education--are being called on to handle a greatly increased load, particularly since the war. Everybody is going to college. And the economist, at least, will not be surprised to realize that, as the demand for education increases, more and more people are attracted to the profession of teaching, not, it must be said, through prospects of a money income, but because...
...this load, or in subsequent ones, were 400 letters which Captain Wilkins contracted to carry over the Pole and mail in Spitzbergen, for $10 a letter. A New Jersey philatelist hopes to sell them to his customers for $12.50 each. Similarly. Lieutenant Commander Byrd is taking U. S. flags on his trip for societies wishing to possess flags that have been to the North Pole...
...future supply organization must be so built that, like a rubber band, it can in a moment be stretched to a hundred times its size without breaking under the strain. It must be just as effective in the new shape as in the old, and must carry a heavier load at every point. It must be kept alive in times of peace, so that it may not succumb to dry-rot. Incidentally, it has had a very active life in the past few years, trying to stretch itself to cover the many new army activities born since the Great...