Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Department of Commerce be authorized to prepare new regulations for measurement of vessels, construction of hulls, etc., and for the establishing of a "load line...
...keep filled, ready for service, 200 airships of the size of the navy dirigible Shenandoah. In a very few years airships twice the size of the Shenandoah will be built, predicted Dr. Moore. They will carry enough fuel for a round trip to Europe, and a good-sized load of bombs if necessary. Commercial dirigibles will connect North America with Europe, South America, the Far East. A Government plant at Fort Worth is now producing daily 15,000 cubic feet of helium, 92% pure, at a cost of about 7? a cubic foot, and 50,000,000 cubic feet could...
...with its plan of operating vessels through agents under the so-called MO4 contract (Managing Operators' contract No. 4). The Shipping Board was prepared to undertake direct operation ; it would group its 81 services into about a quarter as many lines and hire agents only to book passengers and load freight. The consolidation and inauguration of the plan would, he said, begin at once, being first applied to the five lines plying from the Atlantic coast to the United Kingdom...
Hampered by an absence of active dramatic material in the life of Lee, the playwright took upon himself the leaden load of unrelieved character drawing. Lee was, first of all, a gentleman; gentlemen make a point of avoiding the spectacular. An even keel of character can leave only a steady wake. Steadiness implies monotony...
Undergraduates and others will perhaps object to adding another requirement when the general trend in college education appears to be away from requirements. If to add this would be to break the camel's back, then it would be far better to take off some other part of the load. Certainly if the government of the country is to be good and therefore to last, it must be served by the best educated men in the country. And to serve it at all those men must have at least some smatterings of intelligence about its workings. Unfortunately Americans...