Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they should not get their taxes lowered in Nassau and Kings counties. Last year John Pierpont Morgan obtained a $32,000 tax reduction on his Glen Cove properties. Declared Commis sioner Neafsey: "[this fight] to prevent the millionaires, who own two-thirds of the town^from putting the burden of tax ation on the small property owners . . . [will be carried] to the highest court of the land...
...hour for all the men. This is important in making certain that all players will have had time to digest their food before the practice hour. Some of the football men work as waiters in restaurants and dining clubs in Hanover. During football season they are relieved of this burden which would prevent their obtaining the prescribed twenty minutes rest before meals and would necessitate eating hurried and often cold meals, especially between classes at noon...
...impossible to synthesize fame; it is not a tangible thing, it can not be broken down into component parts and analyzed; it is a mere whim of mankind. Virgil laboring under the burden of a dead language and writing of things long since forgotten has generally been dismissed from modern thought, yet he left behind him one of the world's greatest epics, he wrote learnedly on bee keeping or politics, and he was a master of poetic technique. The corpse of his greatness has been briefly revived because two thousand years ago yesterday he was born...
...still have a burden of unemployment. Although it is far less than one-half in proportion to our workers than in either England or Germany . . . our greatest economic problem [is] stability in employment...
This course is only given when the number of instructors is large enough to stand this extra burden. This year there will only be one advanced section and that will be under the tutelage of either Professor Burbank or E. B. Chamberlain '27, assistant professor of Economics. It is to be strictly understood that the putting into effect of this plan will not interfere in any way with the possibilities of other students in the course gaining an A grade if their work warrants it. This system has met with great success in History 1 and has met with...