Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Clauzat of the French Army Air Service holds the world's altitude record with a 250 kilogram load carried to 30,406 ft. Trying to beat his own record at Dijon, last week, he saw flames bursting from the motor. Prompt work with the fire extinguisher apparently stopped the fire. In a hurried descent he found himself "pancaking" upon Liegard Woods. Still 100 ft. or more from the ground, Captain Clauzat undid his belt, and a moment later jumped 15 ft. into the branches of a tree. He alighted without so much as a scratch, but saw with...
...whether he is really the strongest man that can be obtained from any point in America or Europe; for President Lowell, believing that Harvard must sustain its primacy, is never content with any teachers less than the very best, and is insistent on waiting several years rather than load the staff for a generation with good but not exceptional men. He has thus brought department after department up to the highest standard, as has been shown in the report of the President of Miami College to the Association of American Colleges...
...wild story rose, like a drowned cadaver, to the air. . . . How this man Parton had tried to kill Eliphalet ... how Eliphalet had marooned him on an island, sailed away in a ship whose cargo was a load of black, bewildered, suffering flesh from Africa . . . how hate had kept alive the man who walked like a cat and kept Eliphalet drumming with long yellow fingers on the counting-house table...
...quite fair to put all the blame on the college? Is the existence of such a state of affairs more than a reflection of the general attitude of the American people? If the undergraduate prefers billiards to books, and bridge to essays, it is hardly fair to load upon the universities blame which falls more justly upon the homes and schools. Some visitors have marvelled at the colleges' ability to awaken any spirit of scholarship in the stolid and uninterested material dumped upon them yearly. The patient camels scarcely deserve this last straw, an accusation of fomenting the very conditions...
...busy themselves arranging shoulder pads on which to bear the weight of the Chain (about seven pounds for each shoulder). In the afternoon, guests assemble before the stage of the Vassar outdoor theatre; an orchestra of strings and woodwinds strikes up a martial air; the chain-bearers lift their load, oftentimes sneezing because of the dusty pollen of the daisies. Slowly they circle the stage where the Seniors stand, march up a hill, split their column into two lines through which the Seniors, who have followed, pass...