Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inch steel bearings loaded into the muzzle of each piece are fired by 22 calibre blank cartridges which load at the breech. Cylindrical lengths of steel fit inside the muzzle to regulate the muzzle velocity and ensure uniformity of range with all four guns...
Thus Japanese diplomacy has forced the hands of the leading nations. A false move in any direction is likely to load to a race for naval supremacy. Arrogant from their recent successes on every front, Japan is attempting to utilize a period of depression to place itself on a basis of equality with its great Pacific rivals, the United States and England...
...offset the tremendous empty mileage developed by this system, the American Railway Association ruled that each railroad should load idle foreign cars in preference to system cars destined for other tracks. Several railroads have "frozen" per diem agreements providing a fixed penalty period for foreign cars, usually from three to five days. Thus, foreign cars may be held, with a maximum penalty charge of $3 to $5 per car, pending such loading as may be in prospect. Empty hauls are thus substantially reduced...
Curtis-Martin published the Inquirer along with their Public Ledger and Evening Ledger for four years, but the Philadelphia newspaper seas were heavy. Last spring Publisher Martin, who had already cut loose one of his stepfather-in-law's newspapers (New York Evening Post), tried to trim his load further by merging the Inquirer and Public Ledger (TIME, April 16). Last week he abandoned ship. The Inquirer, combined with what is left of the Public Ledger, will be taken in tow again by the Elversons as salvage for the notes which profits evidently...
...good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample of Author Bradford's method of writing dialect: "And Valivostop! Dat's whar us stopped at to load on some coal. Dey got some drinkin' licker made out'n rice and bramboo and stuff named vockster. And drunk you? I tuck jest two drinks and dey had to tote me on de ship in a sack...