Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College's success and experience with the House plan was one of Monro's primary methods for taking up the burden of an expansion policy. He said that the Houses have become much more important since the war and in them lies the key to an expanded Harvard...
...great Yangtze River. From the moment he boards the 102-ft. cargo junk that is to take him upriver from Ichang, he feels irritably caught in a vise of passivity. Once under way, the American is alternately fascinated and repelled by the work of the "trackers," human beasts of burden whose yoke is a bamboo rope, who haul the junk from precarious footholds, step by straining step. Chief of the trackers is a Chinese John Henry nicknamed Old Pebble. Old Pebble is a kind of mythic Nature Boy who can chant his weary men through a rough gorge or leap...
...addition, many qualified non-honors candidates in English, relieved of the burden of two years of Latin, would probably switch to honors...
...Anthony Eden cannot be too pleased with the visit, but it must be remembered that the burden of accomplishment was on the Russians, who had wanted to make the trip in the first place. The Soviet leaders were not seriously interested in concluding agreements on world problems. They had hoped to achieve personal popularity which could have caused much mischief between Britain and her ally the United States. In this they failed...
...have the right to fire a Communist Party member, unless the teacher is proved unfit as a teacher. Nor should it have the right to dismiss a man solely because he pleads the Fifth Amendment. In such cases the school may have the duty to investigate further. But the burden of proof should lie with the institution, and no final decision should be made until the accused professor has been judged by his academic peers. Though it may be legally indefensible, added the committee, a refusal to answer questions out of fear of hurting others "may not be morally...