Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slavic features she has, Irene Curie-Joliot snapped up a science degree at the University of Paris. When her second child was born two winters ago she was away from the workshop only a month. She and M. Joliot get up at 5:30, write their papers ("What a burden!"), are glad to reach the laboratory at 9. They keep long hours, find no time for theatres and concerts. For three months in summer they leave the atom in peace, take the children to grandmother Curie's place on the Brittany coast. There is never a thought of dividing...
...aims which President Conant has set for the University. Many of Mr. Hanford's proposals will without question be put into effect. But any broad program to strengthen the hold of the tutorial system is bound to mean an added dram on the University treasury and an added burden on the faculty's most capable teachers. The President has other uses for the money and other plan for the faculty. He has chosen a way calculated to add to the prestige of the University, but not to further the development of a better educational system. The undergraduate can only hope...
...precedent which deserves the general approval of those who contribute to the Council's annual budget. This year's Council has made notable with class elections, which have thrived in previous years. At a time when the scholarship funds must become more and more inadequate in relation to the burden placed on them by President Conant's program, the Council could have chosen no more worthy enterprise than the establishment of several new awards...
...adoption by statute of such a lower gold content of the Canadian dollar would," said the Globe, "undoubtedly have widespread reaction. It would in due time reduce by one-third the burden of all indebtedness payable in Canadian currency, and would tend to increase prices of commodities in the domestic trade of Canada in similar proportion...
...declare that this shall not be. The level of student expenses is not equitable as it stands. Throughout four years of depression, room rents and food prices have been kept at figures substantially above what many undergraduates could afford to pay. The effect has been to impose a crushing burden on the inadequate scholarship and loan funds, to drive students to all sorts of expedients in an endeavor to make both ends meet, and finally to force not a few to give up then college education or to seek it at some less expensive institution...