Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excells the pamphlets of former centuries only in that it is better bound and more expensive. Uneasy under the searchlight of critics, the public has been self-consciously seeking knowledge, but it is impossible to expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop counters. The burden of a profitable business, they must go down in red ink on the ledgers of men who abandon discrimination because they fear to reject a work that might parallel the phenomenum by Will Durant. And the better authors, in a struggle to keep their heads above water...
...indiscriminate use of the dash, especially in letters which amuse when exhumed by biographers. And as one lapses into the more familiar denotation, it is easy to sce how this new usage follows in the tradition of moving pictures and illustrated papers, in lifting from the people the burden of thought. The comma brings the reader to a sharp pause, and a consideration of the ground covered, but these other tracks flow gently on through vague words of pleasant connotation, rather impressively indeed. And unprovoked to thought, the reader can wander after them through a haze of prettily blurred pictures...
...country with 120 million people, interest at 4% on an 18-billion dollar public debt is $6 per citizen per year. With interest at 4%, billion-per-annum reduction of the debt means easing the public burden 34 cents per capita per annum. In practice, the annual burden per capita is being reduced more swiftly than that because when an astute Secretary runs the Treasury, he refunds the debt at lower rates as he goes along. Therein lies the banker's art, to buy in 4¼% Second Liberty Loan with $400,000,000 of borrowed money for which you only...
...they owed less than at any time since 1919?$18,036,352,451.81. This reduction of eight and one-half billions may be credited about proportionately to Secretary Andrew Mellon and his immediate predecessors, Carter Glass and David F. Houston. Each in his time brought the burden down at the rate of a billion per year...
...Widener authorities, fortunately, have not taken the sometimes trivial criticism levelled at them in the spirit of "Go on, we're down, step all over us!" No matter how busy they have been, they have always seemed willing to take on one more burden. They have welcomed criticism, shortcomings of which have been brought to light only under the acid test of the Reading Period...