Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the new plan, Kearns observed, the HRO would no longer pay the conductor out of its own funds. This, he said, would remove a burden which had caused "financial difficulties in the past...
...appointments of inter-House council members, they had better be careful, and stop, and look. There is an unpleasant number of students in each of the Houses who will shortly be knocking on the Masters' study doors, aspiring and available young men who would be glad to take the burden of inter-House membership. These are just the kind of twerp politico types that the Student Council should not include in its membership. The reason Masters should appoint students is just that it is desirable to avoid the slick and often incompetent student-elected representatives, and to get more capable...
...time he does, they say hopefully, De Gaulle may have freed the French economy from the ruinous burden of Algerian war and found it fit at last to throw away its iron lung and breathe the bracing air of free competition. But they are also uneasily aware that the general (who respects but does not love the British) intends to chart an international course independent of his allies. The British now fear that they cannot change events before Western Europe splits into two groups-the "ins" of the six-nation community, and the "outs...
...addition, the Scholarship office has attempted to further lighten the increased financial burden by easing grade standards required for the renewal of scholarships and aid grants. The University has also increased its allowances to scholarship students for personal and travel expenses...
Harris compared his program to a house mortgage, with the mortgage on the future earning power of the graduate. Thus, Harris continued, the financial burden would fall on the student, not the parent...