Word: overloaded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interests have influenced the rise in oils. Chief among these other influences is Arthur W. Cutten who has gone into Sinclair Consolidated as Blair & Co. have gone into Prairie oil. Always a bull, never a bear, Arthur W. Cutten has done more than any other individual to make the overload stock ticker lag far behind the market and Prairie Pipe. He has been in Radio Corp., in Montgomery Ward, in many another of the soaring stocks that have done most to create the present buying market. In a bull market, among many bulls, Bull Cutten ranks king of the herd...
...comet. The whole situation seemed like a nightmare and quite unreal. Even now I find it difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload. As I drew out of the dive I saw the glow reflected on the wave crests. I managed to put the machine down on one crest, ran down a hill of water, up the next hill, and just prevented the machine from shooting into the air off the next crest...
...Modern democracies overload their executive leaders with so many responsibilities and duties that they have little strength or freshness of spirit left for a creative leadership of the nation's life...
...both of the consulting parties, and to the College, of such meetings as the one arranged for next Monday. I hope however, that no one will suppose that the undergraduates are running Harvard College, or that they want to, and I hope that we shall be careful not to overload Seniors with duties which may interfere too much with their work for their degrees. Fortunately, our best men seem to be able to take good degrees and also to give a considerable amount of time to writing reports like the recent one by Mr. Aswell's Committee, and to taking...