Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Judson, manager of the orchestra, has asserted that the financial terms suggested by the union would add a burden of no less than $100,000 per year to the upkeep of the orchestra, and has called attention to the fact that there is already a deficit of $25,000 this year. The present minimum salary is $60 per week...
...next meeting the Ministry proposed an amendment to the bill which placed the burden of paying the rent of unemployed tenants on the local poor authorities. Liberal and Conservative leaders begged the Ministry to withdraw the refusal. It refused. A vote was taken. Some of the Liberals did not vote. Others joined the Conservatives in opposing the measure, and the Ministry was defeated...
Those two beasts of burden, the Elephant and the Donkey, who began a year since to blow trumpet calls of allegiance to all Republicans and Democrats, were severely criticized for warming up for their race so long before the call to the barrier. Apparently no harm has been done, for although much water has since flowed under the bridges, they but made themselves fit for the great mud battle of March and April in Washington...
...only criticism of the action of the Division will be that it adds one more burden to the laden undergraduate. It may increase the facilities of education, but it does nothing to decrease its mechanical difficulties. With tutorial systems and general examinations in order for a large majority of each class, it would seem that the College appreciated the undergraduate's desire to get an education. But the existence of such mechanical contrivances as enforced attendance and disciplinary hour examinations would lead one to the belief that the College still considered itself a strong armed compulsory feeder and the undergraduate...
...fact that if we had maintained an army commensurate with the size and importance of our country during the past 100 years, the expense for the upkeep of that army would not have been as great as the cost in raising the army for the recent war. Furthermore, the burden to support that army would have been so distributed that it would hardly have been noticeable in the tax bill, and there would have been none of the resulting ill effects of excessive inflation of values which are attendant upon us today...