Word: burden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term. . . . Obviously, the President cannot in advance decline a renomination that may never be offered him. Just as obviously, with the world in such a turmoil as it is today outside of this continent, it cannot be forecast whether the American people would permit him to lay down his burden in view of possible eventualities...
...brethren are really with him, significant fat is obviously on the fire. To see it sputter, Mrs. Anne O'Hare Mc-Cormick of the New York Times touched at Algiers last week, and upon her ever sympathetic shoulder French colonists who are bearing the white man's burden in North Africa in effect sobbed their fears...
...countless private, municipal, and state hospitals that are now supplying care to the needy, and, second, that the moneys should be dispensed by, and the direction left in complete control of, experts. By experts is meant the physicians on whom, in the last analysis, falls the real burden of caring for the sick...
...backfield there will probably be no change with all the backs playing well. Joe Gardella, who has been badly battered emerged from the Brown game without further injuries and will again carry the burden of the Crimson attack next week. The rest of the backfield consists of Bob James at quarterback, Don Donahue at right halfback and John Budlong at fullback...
...project to think about ways of continuing and developing even further student interest in their plan. Perhaps the best way to gain adherents for the scheme would be the formation of an undergraduate committee to parallel the Faculty Committee. This would mean that undergraduates would help to bear the burden of recruiting men to do the reading and take the examinations, a task that is ever so much easier for a student, a fellow participant in the examinations, than for those who administer the reading and questions, whose enthusiasm might by unthinking people be considered biased. A student committee made...