Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus is envisioned a shifting of the whole burden of British taxation so drastic as to seem epochal. Chancellor Churchill, beaming with confidence, announced that his program has the unanimous support of all members of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet (Conservative). It is scheduled to come into effect as of Oct. i, 1929, with the passage of a series of bills, which the Cabinet expects to carry through Parliament before Christmas...
Impartial observers thought that the Conservative Cabinet has hit upon a shrewd program, well calculated to catch votes, and probably destined to further the extremely basic interests of British industry and agriculture. The burden of the "rates" has not seldom been recklessly imposed by local authorities, and should properly become a matter of national concern. Finally the 1,000,000 workpeople who continue unemployed in Great Britain should be able to find many a job in the producing industries which Chancellor Churchill proposes to assist or partially subsidize. Therefore the votes of the unemployed and the votes of most laboring...
...instance, if the secondary school journalist would be wise in taking a book supplement upon his hands. The checkrein is tightening on extra-curricular activity all through the educational system and what is possible to the divided interests of a large college staff may be less feasible where the burden is less distributed...
...Located. Lowell Schmaltz takes great pleasure in announcing himself friend to Coolidge, a classmate in fact, though before Christmas of Freshman year he "had to go back home and take up the burden of helping support the family" (in other words, he flunked out). But he did chance once to enter an Amherst classroom simultaneously with Cal, and venture that the winter was going to be cold. Cal "came right back, 'Yep.' Didn't waste a lot of time arguing and discussing. He knew!" On the strength of this intimacy, Lowell Schmaltz, vacationing office supply salesman, with...
...some extent, their anticipations were rewarded. There was Geoffrey Wareham and Janet Rodney, his fiancee, an absurd and temperamental pair, a burden though a source of merriment to the girl's bewildered mother. The situation in this little group became tense with the arrival of Claudia Kitts, friend to Janet, and foolish Edgar Fuller, Geoffrey's visitor. Claudia looked at Geoffrey Wareham with timid but tenacious adoration. Squealing soulful come-ons, she caused a scene to occur wherein Geoffrey slapped Miss Rodney's cheeks. Further complications were engendered when the pasty Mr. Fuller made a pass...