Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the closing of Widener Library in the evening appears definite for the remainder of the year, most of the extra burden will be placed on the House libraries. While these collections of books are good they are by no means comprehensive enough for all needs, because of the general rule restricting House members to the use of their own libraries...
...study best U. S. birth control methods. Gowned in a kimono of blue silk wound with an elaborate. flowered obi (sash) the Baroness said: "Birth control alone will not solve Japan's problems. They will not be met until the economic system is changed. . . . Birth control will lighten the burden of ignorance and distress...
...there are roughly two yen to the dollar. Today, with Japan off the gold standard, there are roughly five to the dollar. But this decline in the tottering yen, makes it no easier for Japanese taxpayers to pay. For them the burden is as heavy as though the yen were still...
...Democrat or a Progressive Republican after the bill came from the Treasury Department. . . . The very fact that not one dollar of the corporation's debentures has been offered to private investors but every dollar of them unloaded on the Federal Treasury is a clear portent of the burden the taxpayers will be compelled to endure. President Hoover has converted the Treasury into a national pawnshop and infected the central government with the fatal germ of financial socialism...
...been through three years of the hardest times in their country's history. At least ten million willing workers were the Idle Poor. Five thousand banks had gone under. In man's memory wheat prices had never been lower. Taxes were piled on top of the galling burden of private debt. Savings had been swept away by waves of industrial failure...