Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burden. "If this bill becomes law, we wipe out at once almost all the progress five hard years have accomplished in reducing the national debt. . . . The prosperity of the nation, which is the prosperity of the people, rests primarily on reducing the existing tax burden. No other action would so encourage business...
...superiority in the second half. At the close of the first period the score stood only 2 to 1 in their favor. Hopkins of Yale at "In home" scored three times and was the individual star of the game. The summary: Harvard 1927 Yale 1927 Kelsey g. g. Crissey Burden p. 1.h. Hopkins Maisel c.p. o.h. Herman Simpson 1d. la. Lynch Backus 2d. 2a. Withington Bennett 3d 3a. Keller Kullman c. c. Hannah Force 3a. 3d. Smith Stearns 2a. 2d, Hogue Murphy 1a. 1d. Mansfield Sicherman o.h. c.p. McKee Lyall l.h. p. Ryan...
...Saturday, he was seen on crutches in New Haven, and he has been absent from track practice since. A telegram received last night from Yale, however, declared that he was in running shape, and would be able to compete tomorrow. But, in any case, it now seems that the burden of the race will fall on Chapman and Allen of Yale while Kane will keep up the Harvard end of the bargain...
...David Neiman '24, a broad jumper, who pulled a tendon in the broad jump it, shortly after Allen had fallen on the track. Neiman took second in the broad jump at the M. I. T. meet and has improved his jumping in practice since. His loss will leave the burden of the broad jumping for the Crimson on the Shoulders of Hyatt and Quirk...
...toga while walking with the Romans. Even the pseudo-Romans failed to appreciate entirely his wearing of the toga. For one, the king he visited bore him no personal love. After some time of this, he wearied of his honorary exile. Its expense, for one thing, was a burden. Perhaps his fingers began to itch for the familiar feeling of the scorching pen. He voluntarily returned. At home, affairs were no longer the same. His former enemies were still his enemies. His former friends had changed. They followed another leader in another spirit. It was no longer the world...