Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pitching staff, though not always as steady as might be desired was usually able to cope with all opponents. Slim Curtise bore the burden of the hurling, gaining nine victories...
...this modification is made, students will be educated more efficiently and much less expensively. The sluggard will be forced to do more work and will advance more rapidly if required to take an additional course. The man who wishes to study by himself will be freed from the burden of tutorial and will not be weighted down over much by the additional course. Finally, the man who keeps on with tutorial will find that his tutor can devote a greater degree of individual attention which will result in a more rapid advance...
Corporate taxes strike at the very vitals of American industry. While it is inevitable that the burden for relief should be borne by the corporations it is only logical to argue that those taxes should be simple, carefully drawn, weighing equally on all firms, and passed only after penetrating scrutiny by Congressional legislators...
...side of the diseased lung. The ribs then collapse like slats into the chest cavity, preventing the diseased lung from expanding and thereby exerting itself. This rest enables the lung to confine the invading germs of tuberculosis while the other lung, with no appreciable inconvenience, takes up a double burden for the rest of the patient's life. Thoracoplasty is not to be confused with artificial pneumothorax or with phrenicotomy, other efficient and less drastic methods of resting a tuberculous lung. In artificial pneumothorax a hollow needle is inserted between two ribs. Air is pumped into the pleural cavity...
...year the northeast trade winds blow across the Gulf of Venezuela into Colombia, where the Andes taper off in three great wrinkles in the earth's crust. As the warm, moist trades are deflected upward by the first mountain range the air is cooled, releasing part of its burden of rain. In the tropical night an almost continuous electrical display can be seen along the mountain peaks, resembling successive flashes of sheet lightning. This phenomenon is called the "Catatumbo Lights," after the Catatumbo River, which rises in Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish Lake Maracaibo...