Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President] wants them all to stay. . . . They want to stay, too. The idea that Cabinet members find the burden heavy and the life distasteful is another notion for which there is no basis in fact. The truth is they love it ? and no wonder. The position is one of power, dignity and distinction. The social as well as political phases are interesting and desirable. Few leave except with reluctance...
Every member of the University--undergraduate, graduate, and instructor--must be aware that his contribution is needed. Last year the burden of the drive rested mainly on the shoulders of the undergraduate, or rather on only 70 per cent on the undergraduates. This year there is no time for extended publicity and tearful editorial appeals. The collectors will do their part. Beyond that nothing can be done. The generosity of the individual can not be coerced, however much it is needed. The help of those whom the collectors are unable to approach is especially solicited. The time is short...
Leading to this last act were two of the conventional settings in which the wicked and black-browed millionaire was murdered on the eve of his wedding. Of the dozen or two people in the play, nearly every one was suspected at one time or another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven...
American pictures have been a slave to these silly intermissions in the film, repetitions of facts that are only too obvious. It has been apparent for some time that the artistic power of the screen could never be properly developed until the pictorial art alone should carry the full burden of meaning. It is significant that European producers have dared this, and successfully. It is a definite announcement that America must yield to Europe the leadership in the art of the cinema...
...been emphasized that this plan of endowment insurance is the easiest way for the class to give a $150,000 endowment to the University, spreading, as it does, the burden over a period of 25 years on a large number of the class...