Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Technology and President M. L. Burton of the University of Michigan and many of the foremost practicing engineers in America. The society has an interesting key representing in its form the "bent" of a trestle, the most important section of that structure as far as the carrying of the load for which it was designed is concerned...
...open-space brother of the slavish father, carries the day for righteousness with a fine mixture of scorn, patience, idealism. Few of the multitudinous lines are unfamiliar, yet Author Jules Goodman insists on driving the lot home with dogged repetition. Helen Gahagan is courageous under her heavy load. Katherine Alexander, as a young sister of the oat-sower, furnishes a few waking moments by some realistic flapping...
Their seizure of a train load of foreigners, including many Americans, is the only act in a long brigandage which has received much publicity. These bandits have been preying on the provinces ever since the iron rule of the emperors was discarded for a comparatively feeble democratic government. They have recently been joined by the remnants of the army defeated by General Wu Pei-Fu. Bands of a hundred thousand strong and organized under a leader, Lao Yang-jen, became more daring as soon as the efficient Japanese withdrew from Shantung...
During the first hour of flight their battery regulator gave trouble and only the hardest work enabled them to make it function. The excessive gasoline load carried forced them to fly dangerously low, 400 feet above the ground during the earlier stages of their trip...
Transoceanic lines will probably have a Canadian port of call-such as Halifax-in order to load and unload their liquor supplies and thus take full advantage of the new interpretation...