Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Telegrapher Mackay, Banker Sabin, Wales-host Burden and Piggly Wiggly Corporation Maury departed on the Majestic...
...Raskob is a short, well-built man of gentle, clean-cut countenance. His favorite sport is sailing. His business responsibilities do not seem to burden him. In accepting his post he said: "I am not a politician and have never been affiliated with any party. . . . This undoubtedly has been the position of many citizens in all walks of life. . . . There come times in the life of a nation when men not in politics feel called upon to take an active instead of a passive interest in government. My belief that such a time is at hand accounts for my willingness...
...will welcome an opportunity to reorganize and make more efficient the agencies of Government, to the end that the burden of taxation may be lightened. Our platform lays at rest the absurd claim insidiously put out by Republican propaganda that the Republican Party has a monopoly on the mechanics of prosperity...
...Burden on the Student...
Today, the burden of acquiring knowledge is thrust entirely upon the student. Facts are ladled out to him wholesale, like sweet and sour pickles from a tub, with little effort expended upon distinguishing the sweet from the sour. The man behind the book is more willing to learn than ever before, but the man behind the desk is often too busy to teach. The professor having absorbed facts throughout his comfortable career, is content to add to his achievements in the seclusion of a library stall. There he may dissect at his ease some trifling bit of antiquarianism to satisfy...