Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intention of annexing Rumania; she had likewise no intention of occupying the country for love. Her object was food; but that was for the starving German people. Then there were still the German soldiers to be paid and there was a Reichsbank at Berlin groaning under a terrible burden of debt. It was decided that the Rumanian Government must pay for the costs of the German occupation; but there was no Rumanian Government?it had fled. Thus, it came to pass that the Banca Generale at Bucharest was compelled to issue Rumanian bank notes to the amount...
...against the measure. To him the salary bill reflects a grave and pressing situation. The Congressman today faces a task impossible of accomplishment: combining the duties of lawmaking and keeping the good will of his constituents. The latter phase of his task has since the war become an unbearable burden largely because of the demands of his ex-soldier constituents...
...divisional examinations justifiable? To the serious student, they are merely a proof of his general knowledge, and subordinate to his higher aims. To the other types of student they are an additional burden, a source of anxiety, or an unmitigated hore. Divisional examinations can never show brilliance of intellect, except of the synthetic variety, as they are too inclusive, and frequently contain questions that are properly subjects for books. Would President Lowell grant a degree to a man who wrote an excellent divisional examination and also failed to obtain in his Senior year the required number of credits? Such procedure...
...that if and when payments derived by Great Britain from European War debts and reparations were sufficient to provide for the full discharge of British obligations toward the United States oyer the full period of such obligations, including payments already made, any surplus would be used to diminish the burden resting upon Great Britain's Allies...
Many alumni have criticised this provision severely because they feel that injustice is done to the ambitious schoolboy who desires to take some examinations in the fall in order to lighten the burden of his senior year at school or to enter college a year earlier. He may be prevented by illness from taking examinations in the spring, and he naturally in the past has made them up in the fall. No provision is made in the committee's announcement for such a case...