Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics was more obviously and exclusively the news-burden borne by other visitors-Charles Beecher Warren, National G. O. P. Committeeman from Michigan; Assistant Secretary of Commerce Walter F. Brown, Ohio organizer; Senator Capper of Kansas; Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Wisconsin Senator...
...against the Army-in-India last year, and against England in 1924. Most dangerous threat of the Argentines, as everyone knows, is Canadian-born Lewis Lacey, captain and the only ten-goal man among the invaders. Blue-eyed, slight, Poloist Lacey is capable of bearing the burden of his entire team. On occasion, and notably when he played for England in 1924, he has been both offense and defense...
...billions of dollars. They . . . touch directly the lives of comparatively few people. Yet there have been indications of a more widespread realization of the important place these organizations occupy in the marketing structure. . . . The futures exchanges bring into the market a large number of equity traders who . . . lift the burden of risk from the shoulders of producer, merchant...
...Richard Burden Haldane, first Viscount of Cloan, had died in 1913, a grateful Britain would have remembered him as a capable War Minister intent on army reorganization, as Lord High Chancellor and a Parliamentarian for 26 years...
...opposition to the proposed change was vigorous. He noted that senders of social cables (13% of cable business) will profit by the new rates, requiring only a 13? MUPJY to convey the thought that "all are well and enjoy ourselves," while large users (87% of business) will bear the burden of the increase...