Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some of the debt settlements we have negotiated have been criticized because it is claimed that pur failure to collect the last cent imposes an avoidable burden upon our taxpayers. I pass over the practical fact that we have, I believe, made for the United States the most favorable settlements which could be obtained short of force. The original criticism is without perspective and does not take conditions in their true relative importance...
...college undergraduate apparently has an infinite capacity for doing more work. The class of 1928 provides an impressive demonstration of this new principle of education. Entering Harvard under a scholastic burden almost double that of any of its predecessors, harassed by the dismal prognostications of worried alumni, it has proceeded not only to match the old standard but to establish a new and higher one. The class of 1928 in almost every respect proved itself in the tables of Dean Greenough superior to the class...
Although it is well known that the birth-rate of words is high, the world does not so fully realize how many of them are born crippled. The burden of that knowledge intimates Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly. Managing Editor of the New Standard Dictionary, rests upon the compiler of a lexicon. Within two days he has reserved seventeen barbarities aspiring to a legitimate place in the world's least redundant book...
...classes is an exceedingly desirable restriction. It is calculated to reduce the painful pressure of numbers upon facilities, particularly in large introductory courses, to improve the calibre of instruction by reducing the number of section men and permitting a proportionate increase in salary, and to relieve the grave burden under which the tutorial system now operates...
...approach of April, so may the hour examinations. These more or less Jucid intervals of spasmodic scribbling follow closely upon the first bluebird and drift along until the new blades of grass anounce the deadline. At the present moment, any student carrying the normal, any student carrying the normal burden of courses probably has an hour examination or so both before and behind him, and several right under his feet...