Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going on to Jena and Heidelberg after that, and of eventually bringing up at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . He must be a sort of Wandering Jew of erudition, with the important difference . . . that he goes around the world happily instead of miserably, and may leave it, with all his load of learning clinging to his soul, when his natural days are ended...
French, 1929 halfback, who carried a heavy load in the Harvard attack, played consistent football. Putnam and Cunningham also carried the ball well. Moore replaced Putnam at quarterback and Mills substituted for McGehee at halfback. In the 1929 line, Hutchinson, right guard, was the only man to play the entire game. O'Connell and Prior, ends, Robinson and Harrison, tackles, Wolse, guard, and Kernan, center, the original forward defense, were all withdrawn during the game to make way for the reserves...
Normally these roads load 1000 cars of anthracite a day at this time of year. At present, since only anthracite coal in storage is available for shipment, only about 300 cars a day are being loaded, with a tendency toward decreasing amounts as time goes on. As a result the roads have discharged about 15,000 employes. It is estimated the strike is costing the roads about $3,500,000 a week, exclusive of losses on any hard coal properties which they may hold...
...edge of the fighting, the Riffs entrenched so close to the fort that the French artillery dared not fire for fear of hitting their own men. Nonetheless, the Riffs mounted and captured 75 in the open not far away, and one lone white-robed man proceeded to load and fire it pointblank at the blockhouse. He fired eight times and made eight hits. French guns replied and drove him to hitch several mules to his gun and haul it behind a hill...
...Governor Pinchot," he declared, "is an idealist who is sometimes practical, and who is given to being a little ruthless." "In my judgment 25% of the cattlemen have been absolutely wiped out by present conditions on the range, and 90% of the others are staggering under a load of debt...