Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity score was 68 to 68 with a minute left when Yale went into a slow, deliberate freeze. Then the ball went to Plecas. A substitute guard who had tied the game up already and given the Elis their only load, Places just stood there with the ball, with a dumb expression, on his face. Finally, with loss than three seconds left, and when Plecas still had both the ball and the dumb expression, Schnaitter awakened him, and Plecas a cored...
Demand Meter. Gwilym Price is one of his own best customers. His home has so many appliances that he has been forced to have a "demand meter" (made by Westinghouse) installed, and pay a premium for the extra current, because it is an added load during the utility company's peak period. The ten-room house, tucked away in ten acres of woodland just eight miles west of Pittsburgh, was built by the Prices 16 years ago. Price always arrives with a bulging briefcase, but his wife tries to keep him from opening it and usually succeeds...
...that the 20 papers required of the Freshmen represent "four times the usual upper class load." Since the middle-group courses vary widely in their requirements it is hard to see how the "usual upper class load" can be determined. A single term paper in a middle-group course may involve more work than half a dozen short papers of the kind required in General Education A. Furthermore, if there is a disproportion between the amount of writing required of Freshmen and of upper classmen, it does not follow that the Freshmen write too much. Strong arguments can be made...
Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong arrived in Chicago for a theater engagement with his usual load of patent medicines and some ready advice for flu sufferers. Said he: "People wouldn't have flu at all if they'd watch the gargle and the eyewash and drink plenty of Pluto water...
...Freshmen write a short paper every two weeks for Gen. Ed. Ahf--on a subject usually unrelated to the rest of their work. If they could offer a Social Science or Humanities paper to Ahf in lieu of one of these two weeks assignments, a part of the paper load would disappear. The section man in the first course could comb the offering for content and ideas, the Ahf man for writing and expression...