Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither alternative can be at all attractive to the Chancellor; choosing the first will call down upon him the wrath of the industrialists who backed him as a safe bet to preserve their property; and it will moreover so burden the state's budget that it may force a cut in other expenditures dear to a demagogue's heart. The second choice will involve an admission, tacit or articulate, that he cannot accomplish what he set out to do, not even within a reasonable distance of success. I have no doubt that this bit of brazenness on Hitler's part...
...undergraduate expenses at Harvard were reduced to a level which would put no burden on the average undergraduate, this argument might be tenable. The fact is, however, that expenses are above this level and that any increase in financial aid for some students is at the expense of high costs to all. If the University chooses to apply the available money to those most in need of it, rather than spread it thin in a general reduction of rents and food prices, there is much to be said for this policy. But it should not lose sight of the fact...
...ruled China since 1861, felt that she had not long to live. A prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was her nephew, the 37-year-old Emperor Kuang Hsu whose offense had been to attempt to modernize China and rid it of the burden of its old mandarins by the device of asking them all to commit suicide. On Nov. 14, 1908 two of the Old Empress's guards are said to have broken into Kuang Hsu's apartments and strangled him. As his successor the old lady had picked Pu Yi, the chubby little...
President Roosevelt would like to see railroads and utilities shake themselves free from a part of their burden of bonded debt. One good way, he suggested, was to establish sinking funds to retire bonds before they matured. Chicago & North Western hastily took up the Roosevelt idea. Since then, however, financial fashion has dictated a different method of achieving this same end. Faced with a large maturity in April, American Water Works & Electric lately announced a $15,000,000 issue of bonds convertible into stock. Last week New York Central announced plans for meeting its nearby maturities with...
There can be no doubt that the President intends to lighten the teaching burden of the members of the faculty in order to give them more time for research. And since it is the tutorial system which has been responsible for the existing situation, the prevailing suspicion is that tutorial work is slated for curtailment. The tutorial system has labored under the handicap of being a new-fangled appendage to an old machine, and its recognition by many of the older professors has been grudging. Yet in the space of a decade or so, it has achieved a remarkable degree...