Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceeds to Pianist Rudolph Ganz, president of the Bohemian Club which is concentrating this year on helping indigent musicians. Everyone in the audience knew that the modest contra-bassist was the founder of the Chicago Businessmen's Orchestra, that for eleven years he had borne the brunt of its expenses, given it a place to rehearse in his big Hub Store. Boxing, not music, was George Lytton's hobby when he first joined his father in the men's clothing business. He used to be regarded as amateur heavyweight champion, fought in his youth against Jim Corbett...
...only legitimate complaint of the Freshmen is that their class has been singled out to bear the brunt of the new system of assignments. Because of the widely varying composition of the Houses at present, some men will find that they have been put into a House where their own set is submerged, and that they are, in a sense, martyrs to the ideal of the cross section. This situation, however, will correct itself another year, and the outcome should be in healthy contrast to the situation of the last two years, with its "social deserts" and large-scale proselytism...
...Livingston Mills and smokes a 6-in. cigar at about the same angle. Mr. Await, so rushed that his uncut black hair hung over the tops of his ears, kept saying: "We're snowed under, we're snowed under." On him since last September has fallen the brunt of liquidating more than 1,000 closed national banks...
Mississippi's Rankin-This is no time to make the veteran bear the brunt of this depression...
...called 'merchant publishers' cannot afford to publish manuscripts which they have reason to believe will not sell in quantities, and such organizations as the 'American Council of Learned Societies' are obviously unable to finance any material number of articles. This leaves the brunt of responsibility for this important work on the universities. And here, as everywhere else, conditions are not ideal. It is difficult to get university presses successfully started. More consideration should be given to them, as they are at present poorly endowed...