Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the Christmas recess. All men ran three times a week over a distance varying from three to five miles. Coach Stevens has laid such emphasis on running not only in order to develop the wind of the oarsmen but more especially the leg muscles, upon which rests the burden of the pull-through in Coach Stevens' method of rowing...
...need a swimming pool, and additional indoor athletic plants," he continued, "and we are required to pay part of the expenses of the Department of Hygiene as well as operate four athletic buildings, our annual surplus will not stand any further burden. A golf course would certainly be a fine thing to have, but it means an expenditure of between two and three hundred thousand dollars. Moreover, one difficulty with a college golf course is that the students are not around during the biggest part of the playing season. The fact that many of the students would take up golf...
...There are Senators in Washington who are round-shouldered now with the burden of information which they are carrying around looking for a chance to spring on the public. . . . Those yet unnamed are greater in number and of more consequence than the ones already involved. Of course, this information cannot be stifled...
Government's taxation increase of 20% (TIME, Jan. 28). He stated that the Government would merely succeed in raising the cost of living and so place a purposeless additional burden upon the taxpayer...
...Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate." A most unusually good romance, it nevertheless has its defects: a stiff burden of complications, a style that is sometimes as much Mr. Hergesheimer's as the author...