Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secretarial staff tried to cut down the presidential load by sifting and digesting the documents flown in daily by courier plane from Washington. But the burdens of the presidency could be lightened only partially. Harry Truman, who rises at 5:30, was sometimes at his desk until midnight...
...really be complimented for no longer cooperating in wasting untold hours of valuable time in learning to spell with letters having no connection with the sound of the words. . . . More power to the students for having the courage to defy the old mossbacks by refusing to carry this senseless load any longer and thereby-we hope-start a movement for spelling reform...
Among the most intensive courses of its type, Economics A casts a more than healthy load of graphs, charts, and general figuring onto the tender shoulders of the average non-economist who finds himself enrolled. With the General Education program sweetening the pill of Natural Sciences, this course still on the shelf as a dose all history and government concentrators must get down...
...than it has had in the past. But, if it is to be more than a debating society, the Council must also be able to perform its work effectively. The ideal Council member should be popularly selected as well as suited, both by inclination and ability, to carry his load of the Council's duties. This step which the Council has been forced to take should serve in future elections to limit nominations to those men who intend to take their Council work seriously and to guide undergraduates to choose the best men for the position...
...Benefactor operates the most modern slaughterhouse, and sets his own price on all cattle sold in the country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef to their Puerto Rican markets. Dominican soldiers load the ships for Trujillo. They also milk the cows on his model 200,000-acre ranch, La Fundacion...