Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international market. It holds that it is Germany's prime duty to increase her foreign markets in order that she can build up credits abroad for transfer on account of reparations under the Dawes plan. To which the workers answer that such a policy puts the whole reparations burden on their shoulders...
...Higgins' second Scripture reference. "PornoGraphic" can humbly pray with the Samaritan: "Oh, Lord, be merciful to me a Samaritan," and his words were "God, be merciful to me a Sinner." Nor is this the first occasion that TIME has shown ignorance of Scripture. However, I will not burden you here with other incidents...
...bare facts remain, that undergraduate members of the University must take their chances among forty eight thousand graduates for the privilege of watching, at least from hailing distance, what is primarily an undergraduate function. A suggestion for change now can do no possible good to those who feel the burden of a present cross, but for future generations of undergraduates, as the saying goes, perhaps it will not have been suggested in vain...
...primaries. That at least will mean a cessation of Robart torchlight parades, and of processions of small children chanting "Yea, yea, we want Shea!" Harvard Square will lapse into its customary quiet non-political atmosphere, and only the Faculty and the local students who have assumed the heavy burden of citizenship will lie awake worrying, worrying...
...decrease in enrollment in English A is to be approved not because of any intrinate demerits of the course but because thus is signified the removal of an unnecessary burden from the shoulders of over one half of the present Freshman class. Whereas formerly the only method of escape from the elementary and irritating demands of this subject was through anticipatory examinations given before the opening of college--examinations neither widely advertised nor understood a grade of 70 per cent or higher in College Board English examinations now permits exemption. The result is that all those taking the course...