Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Author Gordon's story is not typical, as would be the story of a black Southerner consciously striving Northward toward freedom. As a Westerner, blind at first to the burden of his own color, Author Gordon dreamed of the East where he would be a brown, pagan tycoon. He won the East and more as songster, not tycoon. Still pagan, he says: "There are only two things I worship in life, a dollar bill and a pretty girl...
...still be made effective by holding a second referendum in which the ballots of 50% of the electorate (20,000,000) are necessary for ratification. "Liberty Law." Because the Treaty of Versailles postulates Germany's sole War guilt and then lays upon her the burden of Reparations, some hot-headed Germans hug the fallacy that if the Fatherland would only repudiate her guilt she could then impress the Allies with the logic of refusing to pay Reparations for a crime which Germany did not commit. Such hotheads are bristling Dr. Hugenberg and his reactionary Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet League"). With...
...Crehan, husky guard and star punter who will share Dartmouth's kicking burden. Injured against Columbia he is playing today with a specially constructed helmet...
...Belgian Congo consists of 900,000 square miles of tropical jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created the Congo Free State, fought with natives and slavers, built railroads, finally (1908) made the Congo a Belgian colony as his gift to the Belgian people. In 1909 Leopold began an attempt to interest British capital in the Congo, sent...
...effect of this decision, the first of its kind by an appellate court, was to transfer to the U. S. the burden of proving, not that home-made wine contains more than .5% alcohol but that it contains enough alcohol to make a person drunk and hence is outside the "non-intoxicating" clause of the Volstead Act and therefore illegal...