Word: unload
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assemblies," where they see to it that the school's work?scrubbing, window-washing, leaf-raking, everything but cooking?is performed properly. Four or five times a term a whole form gets a holiday, goes out to work on the school farm (one of Connecticut's finest) or to unload a carload of coal?anything that needs to be done...
This Farm Board announcement caused a 2½ per bu. break in the Chicago wheat market. Many a grain trader assumed that the Board was starting to unload its huge wheat holdings...
...local emergency, such as the arrival of a carload of perishable foodstuffs with no one about to unload them, an agent will simply command all men within the sound of his voice to begin unloading, and will probably also command the station master to pay them for their trouble...
...Hand that his barge was boarded by about 40 buccaneers from The Row, who deposited their contraband, threatened him and his crew with death if there was betrayal. At the E's dock, he said, another band of gunmen made the crew wait all afternoon & evening, finally help unload the liquor...
...machine, charged it with saddling Philadelphia with a huge debt, with "feeding at the public trough." His charges were reminiscent of those that George Wharton Pepper, Mellon senatorial candidate, made in vain against Mr. Vare four years ago. Always quick with a retort, Varemen accused Grundy of helping to "unload" on Pennsylvania some land at Valley Forge under the false pretense that it was George Washington's camping ground...