Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard crews have been training at Red Top for far longer than the twenty years since the rebuilding. The first time a shell-load of oarsmen appeared in that vicinity was in 1881, when one building housed all the members of the expedition...
...half years ago, when husky, high-powered Bernardo Sayao Carvalho Araujo (TIME, April 7, 1947) was opening up the government's Colonia Agricola Nacional just west of Anapolis he made Dr. Fanstone the colony's chief medical officer. The growing colony meant a fresh load for the hospital, but Dr. Jim jammed in more beds, took care of all who came. Last week, as he watched workmen finish a new wing for his hospital, he knew that it would still not be big enough for the need...
When John insisted on going to art school, his father dubiously packed him off with a tiny allowance and a heavy load of advice. "Be a Michelangelo if you like," the elder John said solemnly, "but first make your living." Out of sight of home, John grew a beard, took to parting his russet hair in the middle and wearing golden earrings. "In spite of a superficial appearance of negligence," he later explained, "my mode of dress was not unstudied and had a style of its own." He has since discarded the earrings, but he wears even his black Homburg...
...Resisters. When De Pontillac prepares his bullies to search for "their load of Jewish meat," posters of protest, mute and futile gestures though they are, appear on the city's walls. They are the work of Marc Laverne, leader of an anti-Stalinist leftist group, a man so imbued with revolutionary fatalism that he seems like a disembodied symbol of rebellion. More human than Laverne is Ivan Stepanoff, an Old Bolshevik who has miraculously escaped from Stalin's prisons and who feels himself increasingly a historical anachronism. When Stepanoff is arrested, "his first concrete thought [takes] the form...
Ninety cartons of chocolate milk is quite a load, but someone successfully made off with that much of the traveling stock of William A. Clark '51 on Wednesday night while he was inside Mower Hall vending milk and doughnuts...