Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relieve Chancellor Luther of the onerous task of discharging simultaneously the duties of President and Chancellor. As the forthcoming Presidential election may not be over until the end of April, the strain cf occupying two important offices over such a stretch of time would necessarily impose an intolerable burden upon the Chancellor. Moreover, it was pointed out by The New York Times, that, if the Government were forced to resign before a President were elected, Chancellor Luther would be in the same sort of situation as was the Pooh-Bah in Gilbert & Sullivan's famed Mikado, viz: Luther...
...Goose Hangs High. Another transcription of a Lewis Beach play, this picture is primarily notable for the appearance over the Hollywood horizon of Constance Bennett, daughter of Richard Bennett. She shows much promise, fertile grace and panomimic adaptability. The burden of the story is well sustained on the screen, to wit, that if you but scratch the brass of the heedless young brood of today, you'll find true gold...
...periods will be played with the 110th Cavalry and three with a Rhode Island Troop. R. A. Pinkerton '27 will be unable to take part as he is in New York with Captain Clark and Colonel Browning attempting to organize a graduate polo association to take over the financial burden of polo at Harvard...
...Supposing France, instead of decreasing, was increasing her Air Fleet. Have we no other weapons for meeting such a menace without expanding our Air Fleet and placing an additional burden on the taxpayers? If France is building more airplanes, at whose expense will she be building them? The Chancellor of the Exchequer has a great weapon in his hand in the indebtedness of France by demanding from France some lessening of her expenditure on armaments...
...Intelligence" must be used in a sense specific and universally understood, before any theory about it can even approach validity or importance. But meanwhile, this latest hypothesis may be useful in reminding teachers of children to save their major burden of abstractions for shoulders (presumably sixteen-year-old shoulders) that are quite ready to bear them; to keep their stock of complicated facts for hands that are skilled to sort them. By such a course, many a prodigy may be saved from himself...