Word: burden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...administration would substantially reduce the City's annual budget as the demand for public improvements growing out of the awakened appreciation of their social value would probably absorb all the saving. It is most probable that for a long time to come public spirit will cheerfully carry the present burden of taxation if the expenditure only reaches its destination undiminished by graft and the incapacity of officials. We must remember that the modern treatment of established theories of property has given us some rather startling shocks. In the preface to his "Life of Gladstone," John Morley says "a firm...
Horvitz made the first rebuttal for the negative, and laid great stress on the fact that the salaries of the clergy before the Act had not been a burden on the State. Raymond, making the second rebuttal, stated that the Church was now entirely controlled by the so-called religious associations, and that its condition was one of complete helplessness. The force of Haar's final rebuttal for the side was marred by a tendency to invective. He pointed out quite clearly, however, that the attitude of political however, that the attitude of political hostility adopted by the Church towards...
Lewis, for the affirmative, claimed that the financial burden to the State had been a real one, and that the law had been provoked by unendurable evils, of which the educational was the worst. Lurie's rebuttal which followed, was humorous, and was aimed at proving the cases chosen by his opponents to be sporadic. Butler, closing the debate for the affirmative, said the question was to be looked at from a broad point of view, without taking into consideration mere technicalities. Thus, the so-called Organic Articles of Concordat, though never signed by the Pope, had been in force...
...committee have neglected to hold their smokers or have put them off until much too late. Many more have ignored the request that they should see each man on their list personally. If every member of the Reception Committee will cease to regard his appointment as an added burden, and will see in it the chance to accomplish much good, by a slight personal sacrifice, we feel sure that the results will more than justify the effort...
...Burden, C G, Beck...