Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor who refuses to answer, the burden of proving his fitness ever to teach again rest squarely upon him," Wriston stated, and added...
...universities should also reexamine the qualifications of professors invoking the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions. The professor should bear a heavy burden of proof of his fitness to continue teaching, the statement said...
John Wilkes Booth had been the darling of the family. On Edwin fell the double burden of detesting the assassin while mourning the brother. In the one role, Edwin reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose barn had been burned down around brother John. In the other, he pleaded with the authorities to allow the Booths to give John's body Christian burial. He wrote to Secretary of War Stanton, who did not deign to reply. He wrote to General Grant, who ignored him too. It was President Andrew Johnson who at last handed over John's remains, the raven...
...second of five children, his father said of him: "He'll be a burden all his life...
Carroll F. Getchell, HAA Business Manager, said yesterday, "The crucial problem is one of finance. In England the meets draw very well, but they are not nearly so popular over here. In the past, the American schools have had to bear the burden of expense, no matter where the meets are held. As an economy measure, we plan only one meet this year. Oxford and Cambridge will run in a meet with Harvard and Yale, and Princeton and Cornell. But, unless we can solve the problem of finance, the meet may have to be called...