Word: loads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort, the ship touched ground gently at her starting point, Istres Aerodrome near Marseilles. For 8,026 kilometres (4,987 miles) Costes & Codos had ridden a closed circuit with one load of fuel. The pleased French Government gave them an $8,000 bonus for breaking the closed-course record, which Ferrarin and Del Prete (Italians) held with 4763.7 miles...
...build their navies. But in all this time there has been an ever increasing undercurrent of feeling. From the Hague Conference down through the League of Nations and the World Court, clearer has come the cry for peace; and the nations of the world, weary and sick under their load of armor, are beginning to hear the call...
After hearing Graham McNamee describe the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927, a fairly hardboiled newspaperman* wrote: "Tears, murders, fever were in that voice. . . . I thought from time to time he was going to break down and cry. The emotional load was too great for a human heart...
...sail furled. The crew were going leisurely through the routine chores of a ship in port. On the quarter deck was James Percy Ault, master of arts, magnetician, the Carnegie's commander in all the oceans for the past 13 years. He was overseeing the storage of a load of gasoline...
...Vagabond straightens up the litter of papers which bestrew his desk, tills his briar with a fresh load of Cake Box and settles back to watch the smoke sail up until the first pale faint pulse of dawn beats into the eastern...