Word: unloading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later comes to all of us in these four years; in addition, he has hinted indirectly at a tendency of many to conclude that the more facts one amasses the less one actually knows about life. Cynics often claim that the only advantage of a college education is to unload the mind of the prejudices and ideals bred in the family bosom. Henry Adams was rather more gentle in saying that if it did nothing else, Harvard College left the mind...free from bias...docile...
...Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went down in confusion. Other commodities, notably corn and rye, slid off sharply. The news: After weathering years of economic crises, farm unrest, public criticism and political skulduggery, the Canadian Wheat Pool was about to unload its holdings on the world. If the job was executed recklessly, then world wheat was in for a grand smash...
...Chief Don Irwin, dipping their hands into his hat. A slip of paper told each man which 40 acres, barring swaps, failure or despair, were to be his home until he died. Without a stop to look at their new land, the 136 new colonists pitched in to help unload the train, scatter farm equipment and household goods among eight temporary tent colonies...
...hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined to a 200-mile strip between Canada and Mexico, last week's dust storm suddenly swirled eastward over Missouri, Iowa and Arkansas, crossed the Mississippi to unload on Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. With half the nation blanketed in silt, farmers everywhere were asking what was going to happen to the wheat crop...
...first count, SEC found nothing except an ''unfortunate but nonculpable" delay in putting the directors' action on the news ticker, with the result that Baldwin's home town of Philadelphia got a one-hour jump on Wall Street in the scramble to unload Baldwin securities. On the second count, SEC found that Baldwin's 1933 annual "report "misled the investing public" because the directors' action, "evidencing an impaired working capital position, came as a surprise to the investing public rather than as the acceptance of a situation long in the making...