Word: burden
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...statesmen and soldiers in Europe (see p. 15). It changed the shape of Government in Washington (see p. 11). It stirred and troubled The People, by whose consent alone the U. S. can go all the way to war. Upon no one man but upon all, its awful burden lay. To the man who more than any other can guide the U. S. toward or away from war, it was fascinating and profoundly stimulating. Franklin Roosevelt, man of crises, went into action as one who enjoys...
Like the great artists of renaissance Italy, John Steuart Curry lives on the patronage of States and institutions, paints in peace. His five-year contract with the University of Wisconsin pays him $4,000 a year, carries with it the title "Professor" and the burden of giving an occasional lecture. Still at work in Madison last week on twelve panels for the State Capitol of Kansas Curry called his Oklahoma Land Rush a picture of the same migration Novelist John Steinbeck describes in Grapes of Wrath. Said he: "Civilization went into the Territory 50 years ago on wheels...
...Trustee Herbert Hoover of Stanford University testified before a California court that some of the university's $24,000,000 in seasoned bonds and first mortgages should be invested in common stocks. Burden of his testimony was what already worried many another custodian of trust funds: devaluation of the dollar and inflation of bank credit had cut the purchasing power of income from fixed-income investments; currency inflation (if it came) might reduce the real value of such trust funds to a trifle...
...Kiplingesque empire builder is Englishman Clement Egerton. With anthropology as his excuse, he went to the French Cameroons not to help bear the white man's burden but as a holiday from civilization. His native interpreter had previously worked for a professional scientist, who used a tape measure on everything from a native king's wives to his pots & pans. In African Majesty Amateur Egerton uses no such tape measure, but seldom fails to be readable...
Primary Nazi propaganda is the assertion that the Germans of today are tough, strong, exuberantly healthy. Actually, they are an ailing, weakened people; Germany's state of public health is like that of a country in the last throes of a war of attrition. Such was the burden of medical reports which reached the U. S. last week- by way of Das Neue Tage-Buch, a Parisian anti-Nazi paper, but based on official statistics of the Reichsgesundheits-amt (Reich Department of Health...