Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First, Harvard should be represented by a team capable of holding its own against that of any other university following similar athletic policies. To be continually defeated by such teams is unfair to players, injurious to Harvard pride, and harmful to football receipts, which normally bear the brunt of expenses incurred by other teams...
...encouraging that this should happen. Care should be taken, however, in applying these results to the country. Undergraduates represent chiefly the industrial class which is bearing the brunt of the new deal; the relief program, which will affect election returns, does not touch the student; and the issue is presented on November 6th through candidates, many of whom are Republican stuffed shirts. Above all, the sheltered existence of Harvard makes a student reflect political opinions, not develop them, and despite the value of the opinion of the observer, it does not count for much in politics...
...Varsity baseball is shaping up. Just what Mitch thinks of his proteges would be impossible to say. Fred's conversation with the Press is monosyllabic, to say the least. But a few facts do stand out. One is that Captain Eddie Loughlin is bearing the brunt of the pitching burden. Despite his heavy assignments, Loughlin has done a beautiful job, and the chances are he'll be asked to do just as much work in the future as he has hitherto...
...University Hall a second alternative, that of assigning more students to a few of the better instructors would effect both amelioration of the students' lot and economy as well. Though discussion might be somewhat curtailed in theory, the fact is that a certain group of men normally bear the brunt of the catechism to the exclusion of the rest. Most important, however, interest in a given subject and therefore its mastery would necessarily be facilitated and the musty atmosphere which clings to so many classrooms from Boylston to New Lecture Hall would be dissipated...
Connecticut caught the brunt of the storm in its fullest fury. Power lines went down, and with them out went oil-burning furnaces. Schools shut up for a week. A ball to be given Governor Cross by the Governor's Foot Guard was called off. Danbury bakers began charging 25? a loaf for bread. There was no milk in New Haven for two days. A Wilton mother bore her baby in front of an open fireplace and by candle-light after a doctor had dug through a 18-ft. drift to her door. Six funerals were postponed in Bridgeport...