Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least half the burden of blame must be shared by a subway company which provides no extra accommodations for the extra customers, which allows cars to become so crowded that it requires only the spark of a merry jostle to fire mob imaginations. But this is hardly sufficient to excuse the hilarious destruction. Regardless of incentive, no gentleman will forget that there are rights other than his own, that in the event of a riot his name, coupled to that of his College, will make splendid first page news for Boston city editors...
...must reiterate that the problem of foreign debts has in the American mind very definite relationship to the problem of disarmaments and the continuing burden which competitive armaments impose upon us and the rest of the world...
...London by Frances Countess of Warwick, may now observe an heroic plaque on its façade. A central angelic figure, bearing laurel wreaths, stands waiting with wings and arms outspread. Toward it in stone-carved bas relief, memorializing the sacrifice of their kind, march the dumb messengers and burden-bearers of War-horses, oxen, dogs, pigeons, camels, an elephant, an ass-reminders that in the World War died 269,000 British horses & mules, 22,812 British camels, 628 British bullocks; dogs, pigeons, asses, elephants not counted...
...present such a change would be undesirable. A shorter working week would lessen production, a drop which would have to be met by additional labor. The new men hired would also be drawing wages, all of which would add to the overhead costs of business; this is a ridiculous burden to add to the shoulders of business which is already hard-pressed. Meanwhile the hoped-for increase in consumption would come only as a gradual trend...
...time of trouble, this lack of attention to the most important branch of government in our country, for so many years, is having serious results. The taxpayer is revolting against the needless burden he has been required to bear. New local governments are made to assume new and costly services, including unemployment relief on an unprecedented scale and yet operate with reduced taxes. Many medicine men are prescribing aids for the local government in the form of state or federal assistance. It is, however, possible for citizens to organize effectively enough to bring about good local government in their city...