Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society ever recovers from its fetish of a college education, the secondary schools may be relieved of some of the burden of cramming for college boards and may be able to evolve a broader and more elastic system of education whereby students of mediocre ability can be given a more satisfactory fitting for the world without loss of social prestige...
...swift-paced campaign. He attacked Governor Kohler for being an ally of President Hoover's, "a friend of monopoly." Against him the stalwarts cried: "Dynasty! Oligarchy! Too much La Follette !" Much was made of unemployment and the industrial depression. After the primary Kohler managers explained their defeat: "The burden of carrying Hoover...
Selling the Happiness and Mirror control was United Cigar Stores Co. of America which is likewise profitless and has found this experiment in distribution a burden...
...Rains have stemmed the spread of the drought and greatly improved the situation outside the acutely affected area [640 counties]. In those areas destruction of crops has proceeded to a point that is beyond any great degree of recovery. . . . From a relief point of view the burden of the problem in the acute area will show very much more vividly over the winter than at the present moment." ¶ Because pious Virginians protested that Marines guarding the President's Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held...
...great English country house, one of the many built to be the glory of the aristocracy but becoming its grievous burden, is the dominating personality of this novel. The figures of the story are drawn from the unreal, tightly woven society of the reign of King Edward VII. Characters and house together present the argument: that there is no living under the weight of aristocratic tradition, but only a formalized existence of satisfying present appearances and ancient responsibilities...