Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business cycle must play during the coming decade, we can contribute powerfully to financial stability throughout the world. And, finally, if we adhere consistently to this view, we can make it clear that little indulgence can be expected by debtors who adopt policies calculated increase inordinately the burden of debt inherited from the Great...
...declared that many people had come to see that a League of Nations was unnecessary for the performance of such negotiations. The Senator explained that the Washington Disarmament Conference was a great service to the world, because the peoples of all countries were being crushed under a stupendous burden of taxation. "In the Four Power Treaty, President Harding secured no pledge to supply armed force, but only an agreement that, in event of any difficulty arising in that sensitive region, the Pacific, the Powers directly concerned would come together to talk the matter over frankly and fully. This...
...exceptional by any means. It should be possible to announce a year or so in advance those definitely to be omitted, and the custom now occasionally followed of announcing courses as given in alternate years could be made a fixed rule. Such procedure might add to the burden, already heavy, of the compilers of information, but the assistance it would contribute would be almost invaluable particularly in these days when Divisionals have put a premium on certain courses not invariably given...
...Carnegie pension lulls him into cheap security and carries him gently downward to the serene futility of a retired Indian civil servant. He can teach in the great forum of the wide world, and as a laborer he is worthy of his hire. Why, then, should the teacher burden himself with academic routine and with slavery to adolescence when he has a thousand other avenues open to his talents? Somnia Vana in The Freeman...
...yard run presents much the same story, with Burke again carrying the burden of the Crimson hopes. Again the Eli entry, Campbell, is favored to win, but again, the reckoning does not take fully into account the improvement of Burke during the meets and practice work outs this spring. Last Saturday, after walking away with the mile, he won the half-mile event by over 16 yards in near-record time. Provided that the mile race is not too hard on him he should press Campbell to the tape and there is more than a chance that he can cross...