Word: burden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...notes he proposes to issue. By this rule those who cannot make use of the loan and deposit credit, which is relatively cheap, are obliged to trade by means of monies capital--that is, coin and greenbacks--which is a comparatively expensive process. This is most unjust, because the burden falls chiefly on the rural districts which use deposit credit very little and are the least able to bear the burden. The system is unscientific in that is fails to respond to commercial needs and renders the supply of currency dependent on the price of Government bonds. All these faults...
...restores our bodily power and our capacity for seeing things in proportion, we need not inquire as to its ethics. Any recreation which is really restful can do no harm. The trouble today, the speaker said, is that play is made, not a rest from work, but an added burden to life. The hours given to recreation are the lightest, but not the least important ones in life...
Following report to Stephenson on the ground floor: J. L. White, W. F. Emerson, T. T. Whitney, J. W. Burden, J. D. Nichols, L. G. Morris, C. S. Bird, C. P. Greenough...
Following unassigned men report to Stephenson: W. E. Emerson, C. Burlingham, A. N. Holcombe, J. W. Burden, S. D. Preston, C. E. Ware, Jr., D. A. Newhall, W. Z. Carr, K. Moller, F. H. Nesmith, R. Amory, Jr., H. A. Taylor, H. R. Shurtleff, T. T. Whitney, A. L. Castle, D. McFadon, R. E. Sperry, F. H. White, J. D. Nichols, L. G. Morris, H. H. Whitman, E. Wilder, Jr., J. Parkinson, T. D. Sloan, R. Grant, J. L. White, C. S. Bird, J. R. Hooper, L. R. King, R. J. Leonard, W. G. Means, F. C. Taylor...
...While leaving to the undergraduates an average burden of less than two dollars a head for the maintenance of the minor sports, and for contributions to the cost of the track team, and the crew, at the same time to make up the rest of the expenses of these two teams in view of the general interest felt in them...