Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, because much of their time is occupied in earning enough money to keep them in their precarious place. Raising their tuition fee fifty dollars is placing an additional millstone about their necks which to the substantial shoulders of the University would be a far lighter and more appropriate burden...
...look on as the rest of humanity strives to work out a basis upon which a permanent peace can be laid. And yet, it is upon those same indifferent nations that the most cruel blows of another war will be struck. It is not upon your fathers that the burden of civilization now rests, but upon you American college students...
...Association of America; he was addressing his fellow-scholars in that body where they sat convened in Manhattan. He was discussing a feature of a report lately published by the American Association of University Professors, against whom he said he "bore a grudge" for their unwillingness to share the burden of faculty dismissals...
...point has now been reached, however, where local taxation is a pressing burden on farmers, merchants, home-owners and even wage-earners everywhere. Local taxes, which were only $2,956,000,000 in 1919, have increased to $4,449,000,000. The tendency is one which may deeply concern all U. S. business interests in coming years...
...English member of the Indian Civil Service to urge the cause of native independence. In the American Review of Reviews for December "A British Official" speaks true to type in defending English dominion in India. Strong upon his shoulders presses the weight of "the white man's burden" when he writes that "the people of India in the mass realize that they cannot do without English protection and rule...