Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read with considerable interest and not a little awe your Yale supplement. Particularly intriguing was the load article, entitled "Yale: For God, For Country, and Success". I was impressed and gratified to hear that I head an organization which "wields terrific influence" and that I myself am held "in near veneration" by the campus at large. An enviable position!--and one, frankly, of which I had not been aware. Because your writers reported it, however, I presume it must be so. I will not hesitate to inform the more doubting Thomases in the Ell midst of this happy fact...
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2--The men, women, and children piling out of New York's Penn Station by the special train-load practically ignored large front-page headlines in the DAily News ("Undeclared War Is On--MacArthur") in favor of the sports section, where it was reported that the reliable Jersey house ahd established Army as a 19 and one-half point favorite to defeat Navy. And Navy, as later events proved, refused to take that seriously...
...tribe -the 300,000 New York commuters who daily ride the rachitic, mismanaged Long Island Rail Road. They were also resigned. During a decade of endless criticism, the road's ramshackle trains-which link Long Island's sprawling suburbia to Manhattan and carry the biggest daily passenger load in the U.S.-had gone right on running late, bogging down in snowstorms, killing motorists at grade crossings and risking the lives of their passengers...
...five largest departments, however, that the major difficulties lie. In 1948-49 almost 60 percent of Harvard upperclassmen concentrated in Economics, English, Government, History and Social Relations . . . To carry this load, the five departments in question have only 32.7 percent of the total faculty manpower...
...salvage his foundering Dollar Steamship Lines, President R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar was grateful for the chance to abandon ship. His famed globe-girdling shipping line, founded in 1901 by his canny Scottish father, Captain Robert Dollar, was crusted with the barnacles of mismanagement, and carried a top-heavy load of holding companies...