Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press agents; it's all they can do to keep up with the data that comes in. What is distressing, Livingston noted, is that even in this center of intellectual achievement a major gap still exists between the scientists and the non-scientists. Few of the latter care to burden themselves with the technical implications of rocketry, bomb testing or ocean turnover, for example, although vital interests--weather control, contamination of the atmosphere, and disposal of radioactive waste--are at stake. And yet the leading scientists of the country have been working on and occasionally lecturing about these important concerns...
...essentially a modification of the first, envisions a voluntary "House Honors" program for those non-Honors Seniors who nevertheless wish to continue some form of tutorial. The plan assumes that a large portion of non-Honors students, often with sound reasons, simply do not want to take up the burden of extended research in some narrow, particular field, but still do not desire the anonymity of large courses. These groups would be organized on a House basis, with certification of "House Honors" placed on the degree...
...your superb story, "The U.S. on Skis" [Feb. 9], you say that the first rope tow, key to the U.S.'s ski boom, was installed at Woodstock, Vt. in 1934. The first rope tow was installed there in March 1933, and was the invention of Douglas Burden, the late Thomas Gammack, and myself...
Kitchener, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a hussar's busby...
Crane attacked the view that Harvard and M.I.T, with their large areas of tax-exempt property, are an economic burden to taxpayers. He said that on the contrary the Universities have "a stabilizingeffect" on the city's tax rate, and, comparing Cambridge's taxes to those in neighboring cities, attributed the relatively low rate here to the presence of the institutions...