Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...
...City government has become a recognized profession. More than 350 cities of the United States are operating under the City Manager form, which, twenty years ago, was unknown. The burden of taxation has become so heavy that, for the proper continued economic development of the city, more efficiency and economy must be brought into the public service...
...limited cut rule such as enforced at Columbia places upon the conscientious undergraduate the burden of exhausting his allowed absences. Permitting five cuts in a course does not mean telling a student to cut five times but it usually works out that way. With the necessity for cutting three or five times removed, the really interested student might attend a course to his heart's content, perhaps not cutting once in a semester...
...supply a long-felt need and at the same time to relieve the Office of the Secretary to the University for Information of the burden of answering miscellaneous questions, the General University Information Office has been reorganized, its office in the south end of University Hall redecorated, and a new man, who has had several years experience as messenger and stenographer in the College administration buildings, has been placed in charge. The new institution is under the direction of J. W. D. Seymour '17. Secretary of the Committee for Information...
...assured of this: On a not far distant day the young giant America will enwreathe the portrait of the man who placed upon it the burden of honor to fight for an ideal without the hope of material return. Never before in human history has this occurred...