Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general the Robinson-Patman Act puts the beneficiaries of discrimination on the same footing as the donors; transfers the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defense; attempts to substitute specific prohibitions for the generalities on price discrimination contained in the old anti-trust laws...
...urged BAAS to take some notice of social problems, to establish better communications with the public. The members snorted. Sir Norman thereupon organized the British Science Guild, which cooperated on socio-scientific matters with His Majesty's Government. When BAAS continued its indifference, famed Biologist John Burden Sanderson Haldane also resigned from it, and Writer Herbert George Wells mercilessly made fun of it. For the last twelve years persistent efforts have been made to reconcile the Association and the Guild. Now that BAAS inner council has changed its onetime "antisocial" attitude to one of thoughtful solicitude, the two organizations...
...Ordinary comity between states imposes an obligation upon the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to stop this condition of anarchy which results in a flow of polluted commerce into this state and thus imposes upon our taxpayers the heavy burden of enforcing the law against contraband commerce...
Chairman Gummere stressed the growing continuity between school and college, pointed out that President Conant had relieved Freshmen of the burden of compulsory courses, and concluded by urging every Freshman not to lose the oppertunity offered by the great freedom of university life to do one thing and to do it well...
...Almost a hundred years ago Ralph Waldo Emerson, speaking of the American scholar declared that 'the scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.' In this troubled century the burden is to be borne not by one individual or by one group but by those who live in many lands. . . In this unquiet modern world which inventions have compressed to the size of Emerson's America we have need not so much for the America scholar as for the mutual...