Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repairs, it required that nearly four dollars be expended to make the repairs. . . ." Rear Admiral Magruder wound up with a consideration of Navy salaries, the need of enlisted men, uses to which decommissioned ships might be put. He concluded that economy and administrative reform could regenerate the Navy without burden to the taxpayers, "yet, as is ever the case, to reform requires a certain amount of ruthlessness and moral courage of a high order." "Sic 'Em." So soon as Washington correspondents had read Rear Admiral Magruder's article, they sped to Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur...
...certain extent only, however, for with the great burden placed on the tackles in modern football, two men can scarcely be expected to carry out the entire tackle assignment without frequent relief. In this respect the loss of W. L. Storey '30, last year's Freshman bulwark, through ineligibility will undoubtedly prove a serious handicap. J. E. Barrett '30, Storey's running mate last year, is the leading prospect for relief work. He is the solid, powerful type of tackle who can stand and administer plenty of rough treatment. H. L. Levin '29, T. H. Alcock...
...purpose of the tutorial plan to supersede instruction in courses or to provide an added burden for the student to carry through his college course. Work done out of courses with the tutor is intended to parallel the path followed by the lecturer and to supply the material necessarily omitted in the management of a large lecture course...
...Science Killed the Navies." So said Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, research director of the Eastman (Kodak) Laboratories of Rochester, N. Y. "A modern navy is a burden too heavy to be borne. . . . the advance of science will make it impossible tomorrow. One of the sanest of small nations? Denmark?already has decided to give up the idea that it can defend itself and ... is ... therefore, reasonably safe...
...later disease. Yet gas is the greatest casualty-pro-ducer in war, Soldier Fries explained, because its victims require from two to three persons each to care for them, "while statistics show that one man can dispose of two fatal casualties. . . . Wounded men are many times more a burden than the dead. Gas is the only instrument in which the power of the blow can be regulated...