Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...career of political change, they will soon be labeled "socialistic" by their former allies, and the great Fascist alliance of American capital and ex-soldiery will be split asunder. It the Legion is to be congratulated on its vigorous advocacy of a measure which will distribute more justly the burden of war, the association of standpatters and bogey-hunters is to be condoled with upon its loss of a capable if strongheaded ally...
...Eventual reduction of income surtaxes with a view to securing greater revenue and reducing the burden on business...
...Corporation of Yale University received and accepted the resignation of Dr. Hiram Bingham, Governor-elect of Connecticut, a member of Yale's History faculty. "The increasing burden of public duties," explained Dr. Bingham, thus referring, as Woodrow Wilson had once to refer at Princeton, to his election by the people of his state to the chair of Governor...
...Hugh C. Buckler makes a good try at the "good-hearted giant" type of army officer, a necessary feature of most light comedies laid in England. When Miss Katherine Standing, who plays the part of Lucy Pillenger, comes on the stage, even the lightness of the comedy becomes a burden to be cast aside, cars are closed, and eyes open wide, very wide...
...broadcast. All the patriot needs do is catch the swing of the melody, and read the words over once. The spirit of it he already has. Then to enforce justice, all true patriots will march in a body to the immigration headquarters singing the new national anthem, the burden of which runs...