Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee will also arrange to finance the gratutious distributions to schools of the University publications and thus to relieve them of a burden which is not properly theirs...
...Knor resolution is passed. In addition, it is doubtful whether his offence is an extraditable one in any case. Lastly, the Baden government, in releasing his would-be kidnappers at our request, expressly "suggests" that the draft-dodger "under no circumstances" be molested. Inasmuch as we are under the burden of their courtesy in the matter, we can only observe the stipulation...
Inasmuch as the student is forced to bear the burden of the answer, it seems only fair that the examiner should assume responsibility for stating his questions clearly and completely. Accordingly, many instructors are accustomed to stipulate the time to be allotted to each part of the examination paper, and personally explain exactly what is expected for each item. But this policy has not been pursued far enough. Week in and week out one hears the oft-repeated complaint that the instructor has expected bread when he but asked for a stone. The student can hardly answer the question before...
...account of the additional burden which the Intercollegiate Track Meet on May 27-28 will put on the management, more track manager candidates are needed than reported yesterday. The competition will be held open until 1.15 today for any additional men who wish to go out. Candidates who report at the H. A. A. before that time will be under no handicap...
...English long ago did away with royal autocracy, they can find no comfort in a despotic executive. Their mandates threaten to cost them over twenty-eight billions of pounds in the coming year, and have already involved them in complications with other governments, notably with the United States. This burden has been assumed not only without the consent of the English people but in the face of a conspicuous lack of precedent. With former German possessions still being parcelled about by the League, it is only just that assumption of these mandates be subject to parliamentary control...