Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present solution of a reduced budget is at best a temporary one, since the standard of coaching is bound to suffer in the long run as well as the interest shown in the sports themselves. A compulsory participation ticket costing the Freshmen ten dollars would redistribute the financial burden more equally and satisfactorily among the college, since at present the Yardlings pay nothing for the privilege of using the University's athletic facilities...
...result of boomtime expansion which culminated in the purchase of Beaver Products, makers of Beaver Board and "Bestwall," original gypsum wallboard, in 1928. To acquire Beaver Products the company had to issue $13,500,000 in bonds, thus simultaneously gearing up productive capacity and enormously in creasing its burden of fixed charges. A long price war with Sewell Avery's U. S. Gypsum helped matters not at all. Depression came two or three years too soon for Certainteed...
Relieved of the burden of a worthless schedule, the members of the team can now move on to develop a greater interest in boxing within the walls of the college. For withdrawal from outside competition has no connection with the curtailment of the six other minor sports which retrenchments and economics are reducing to semi-informal level, since just as much money is to be spent in supplying coaching, equipment, and other necessaries as ever before. Thus boxing enthusiasts can look forward to an interest, and not a diminution, of facilities and interest, and a future of much promise opens...
...commenting on the situation, Dr. Bock has called attention to the lightness of the attack and the quick recovery of those who suffered. While the burden of suspicion falls on veal and ice-cream served in the Union, the lack of definite bacteriological evidence make any attempt to fix the blame extremely difficult. Thus, with the University doing all in its power to protect the food from contaminating influences, all the student can do when the plague strikes is to screw his courage to the sticking place and hope it strikes somebody else...
Restraining his argument as he has restrained his resounding voice ever since Chief Justice Hughes asked him to quiet down during the Carter case. Chief Counsel Wood attacked the law strictly on constitutional grounds. His thesis was that, since the burden was laid solely on employers and on them equally regardless of unemployment conditions in their particular plants or industries, it violated both the due-process and equal-protection clauses of the 14th Amendment...