Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang, early realized that China's leaders were China's intellectuals; and that the only way to invade China culturally as well as physically was to cripple, or at least regulate, Chinese colleges. Year ago this week, squads of Japanese planes lazily droned across Tientsin, dropping their load on Nankai University. That was the beginning of a concerted campaign...
...equipped airplane, piloted by Bob Reeve, carried the first load of equipment to the camp 60 miles from here, on May 16, after waiting five weeks for the weather to clear. As the plane had to fly over a 12,000 feet range, perfect flying weather was necessary, according to Washburn...
...experimental DC-4 which will take to the air next week is really the fourth DC-4. First was a "mock-up"-a full-sized wooden replica, exact in every detail, for a study of space requirements, load placement, general structure. DC-4 No. 2 was a perfect scale model, with 8 ft. 3 in. wingspan. This Lilliputian transport "flew" through 1,100 hours and $25,000 worth of wind tunnel tests at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech. Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every...
...suggested that the British subject still led in being most heavily taxed. Over a long period the average Briton has become so accustomed to this that he often, half-humorously, half-proudly, boasts about his proven ability to thrive while carrying the world's heaviest per capita tax load...
Recognizing the "great complexity of making adjustments in the teaching load," the dean announces that part-time instructors in the Freshman courses, who are not Tutors, will receive direct payments for advising. Resident Advisers (the three Head Proctors and those other Proctors who also are Freshman course instructors) will receive allowances for all meals taken in the Union, instead of two per day as under the present system...