Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce which has been investigating the financing of social service institutions discloses a not unusual situation and attendant problems. Out of 43,000 contributors to such agencies, one percent gave more than half the money. The problem before the committee is a more equal distribution of this financial burden over the community, and a more equal distribution of the funds between institutions, with an elimination of overlapping and unnecessary activities...
...Harry Green, as William Augustus Jones, carries the burden of the performance. In the part of Mrs. Trumbull, a huge relative of the Wilsons, Miss Josephine Deffry extracts many laughs from the audience. Miss May Collins, as Dorothy Wilson, makes a charming heroine...
...Slipping out of the servants' entrance of the Burden home, the Baron bounded into an automobile, was driven to Manhattan. At the Pennsylvania Station he took a subway to Park Place, walked to the Woolworth Building, was taken skywards by a neatly-uniformed and much impressed "indoor aviator." From the top the Baron himself became impressed with the wonders that were revealed to him. From the Woolworth Building he paid a visit to the New York Port Society, inspected the building, chatted with the seamen. He was much interested to learn that British and American seamen sing in unison...
Those colleges which limit their enrolment "in order to give a few students a better training" must in the end sustain a very heavy burden of proof; they select the best students, they say, but they retain the same teachers, and one fancies the instruction will remain much as before. I know colleges which have carried the "limiting" fever into the classes, and boast that they have improved the quality of their teaching because this or that course, which used to be open to anyone who elected it, is new strictly limited to twenty or fifteen. Well, it depends...
...text of the telegram which was sent to the Prince at the summer estate of James A. Burden, Syosset, L. L., is as follows...