Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, our judges are prohibited from adding to their salaries by other means, the burden of maintaining necessary appearances at the present rate of pay will prevent the bench from attracting the most promising material. The more ambitious and active lawyers will decline to serve as judges and will remain in private practice...
...arrival, there are injurious effects as well to be taken into account. Not only does an inferior grade of foreign labor lessen available employment for Americans, but it tends to depreciate wages and in some instances practically monopolizes a given field. Moreover, those who do not become a public burden through lack of work, are apt to develop a thrift which impels them to return their savings to their native land...
...done without incurring a too heavy burden of expense upon individual student pocketbooks the Student Council would be wise to accept the invitation to send representatives to the inter-collegiate conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in April. The conference is an experiment that looks good and one that very likely will prove valuable enough to be established as a permanent part of the annual academic calendar...
...Committee of the Harvard track team, it was decided that the Supervisor of Track Athletics should assume the responsibility of coaching the team. The reasons for this change were twofold. In the first place, the former coach of the team had expressed a desire to be relieved of the burden of developing a track team, and secondly, it was felt that the supervisor as coach could better execute the plans of the committee than he could acting as an intermediary...
...drama the age-old themes of passion and superstition must have a consummate skill if he is to avoid common banality or overwrought melodrama; and when, as is with the case with Jacinto Benavente in America, he is almost unknown to his audiences, and must assume the full burden of proff, his task increases tenfold. Yet Benavente is sufficiently a master of his art to have overcome these difficulties and presented a play of unquestionable merit...