Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question, because if the United States should withdraw its control and cease to exercise its power of protection over the Islands prematurely it would very likely ensue that internal complications would follow and some other country might feel it incumbent upon them to step in and take up the burden which our country has just laid down...
...other alternative, that of a State university, is one that easterners view with justified alarm. It would impose upon the state a burden in taxation that would add distressingly to the obligations of the citizens of a State the size of Connecticut on the one hand, and invite, on the other hand, a political oversight and supervision which might easily be turned into disrupting propaganda, the enforced assimilation of a curriculum that would serve the interests of a new and independent scholarship. New Haven Journal Courier
...soon be fulfilled. If the Yale Corporation feels that $300 is a fair share for the student to pay annually for the expenses of his education, and if Princeton is considering an increase from $250 to $300, there is no reason why Harvard College should bear so great a burden of the cost of educating its students as it now does. When explaining the need of the University for a $15,000,000 endowment, Mr. John Richardson said the Committee had estimated that the cost of educating one man at the College for one year was over $400. It seems...
...Legislative relief may eventually be obtained, but its progress is certain to be rendered slow by the present existing laws and by the indirectness of officialdom. In the meantime, the incoming flood of prospective citizens still continues, so that those in charge of the work must shoulder the double burden of campaigning for reform while attending to duties far heavier than normal. Italy's decision to withhold her share of immigrants until matters shall be adjusted is thus extremely helpful in that it comes at so opportune a time...
...losses be considered in abatement of profits; the proposal of a final-sales tax; these are some of the plans mentioned at the hearing of the Ways and Means Committee of the House. Some change is assuredly needed. It must be one which will reduce the amount of the burden now placed upon the heads of the comparatively few, and distribute it in smaller quantities to be shared more uniformly by the many. The industries of the country must not be stunted in their growth by another financial crisis similar to the one through which they are now struggling...