Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a person could be fooled into believing that Homer, the old American stand-by, was equal to his popular reputation. There are a few works by other painters in this collection of watercolors, however, and it is upon the shoulders of Marin and Hopper, contemporary artists, that the burden rests of showing those who wish to see, that Winslow Homer is a highly over-rated painter...
...statement to the Temporary National Economic Committee in Washington, D. C., yesterday, Alvin H. Hanson Luelus N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, suggested that the burden of taxation be pleased more heavily on savings as a means of forcing capital into investment...
...buried in the ground in the United States $15,500,000,000 of the world's gold supply, with more of it being hurried across the ocean. Instead of being utilized as the basis of a world credit structure . . . this mass of metal has been transmuted into a burden...
...supplemented by American minds. By offering to establish an institute at Harvard, the Brazilian government is making a step, important not only in itself, but as a custom that may find favor with the rest of South America. It has wisely offered to bear most of the financial burden, leaving to Harvard the sole responsibility of providing a few rooms for the library and for lectures. The hand is extended, and by shaking it warmly Harvard will serve its undergraduate body, but even more striking, it will establish a precedent valuable to the whole of South America...
...rumored on the point of abdication. Last week correspondents learned that when the mild little King heard of Premier Mussolini's plans to invade Albania, he sent Crown Prince Umberto to call on His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, not once but twice. One interview lasted 45 minutes. Its burden: Rome and Berlin having been politically hyphenated while the King was on the throne, there was nothing he personally could do about splitting the combination; but perhaps if he abdicated in favor of his son, Italy might stand a better chance of escaping from the axis. Would Pius...