Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great sorrow just how right she was in that library: Ethics--in their day-to-day application and not just the textbook variety--are excruciatingly complex. The balance between the demands of personal happiness and the demands of bourgeois propriety is well-neigh impossible to attain. Most people load the scales on the side on propriety. Wedding in Blood is a movie about two people living Thoreauian lives of quiet desperation who choose to throw the scales in the other direction, becoming willing murderers along...
...tenured people at Harvard and not-too-famous people from elsewhere who want to see Harvard, do research at Widener, or impress a department enough to garner a job offer. They get one-fifth of their regular academic-year salary if they teach a full course-load...
...refined by now, though, that it is doubtful anyone could tell for sure. He certainly will not face the kind of complaint that he received from former San Francisco Giant Catcher Tom Haller when Perry was first learning how to wet the ball. "Gay, please cut down on the load," Haller pleaded in the middle of one game. "I'm getting drenched...
According to Golden, the printing office is managing to handle about 5 to 10 per cent of its normal work load by using supervisory personnel...
Strauch reportedly has set a rigorous work-load for the committee, but also has been able to keep the committee from any serious splits of opinion that might hinder their work. In fact, the only incident which has provoked a major split thus far is the question of increasing the size of the college to accommodate more women. The students on the committee all say they oppose any such move because of the already strained housing and educational resources for undergraduates. All the other members of the committee have at least expressed a willingness to consider the size increase. Most...