Word: unload
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commander Lansdowne's order, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Rosendahl mounted the ladder, made his way down the keel to unload fuel. Fifteen men were left...
...wife, they recorded with precision that Mrs. Coolidge took two pictures of the Chief Executive with his hat on, another with his hat off, others near the piazza, near the barn door, near the flower garden. Mrs. Coolidge, having exhausted her first roll of film, tried unsuccessfully to unload the unfamiliar German magazine. The President, appealed to, was unable to aid her. He looked about him, spied one "Dick" Sears, Boston cinema cameraman, standing among the pressmen. Catching the President's eye, up rushed Mr. Sears. He mastered the German mechanism and coached Mrs. Coolidge...
Along this line were found about 90 vessels, steam and sail, engaged in liquor traffic. One or more U. S. vessels placed themselves a few yards from each of the smugglers. It became impossible for the smugglers to unload their cargoes into launches ("rummies"), with the result that the launches stayed idly at their docks along the shore...
Taxis and other automobiles which do not park, if coming from Brighton may unlead their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street on Western Avenue about two hundred yards from Gate No. 8. If coming via Cambridge by the Parkway from Boston they will be required to unload and turn at DeWolfe Square on the Parkway about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side...
...greatest dangers of a "building boom," apart from the loss of invested capital always involved, is the rickety and shoddy type of construction erected. The speculative builder wants to finish his house and unload it on someone else for a quick and substantial profit. His attitude toward material, plans and workmanship is apt to be entirely subservient to this desire. So long as a house will look all right until someone buys it, he cares little what shape it will foe in a few years hence...