Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special merit, the University reserves honorary titles. Thus William A. M. Burden is Honorary Curator of Aviation Literature in Baker Library, while Dard Hunter is Honorary Curator of Paper-Making and Allied Arts...
However, a series of rough away matches at Exeter, Williams, M.I.T., and Yale is coming up in the next two months, with only one home match, Exeter, this Saturday afternoon, to lighten the burden...
...graders know that final exams will be returned to students, they will have to take more time with their corrections, adding longer and more careful comments to the student's work. This necessity will undoubtedly increase the burden of the already underpaid and overworked junior Faculty member. Such conscientious grading, however, does not seem an unfair demand, at a College that purportedly concentrates less on what goes into a student's academic record, than on what goes into his head...
...cuts by midyear. What may throw it off is current military spending, slated for a $500 million rise to $34.5 billion, then another $1 billion rise in fiscal 1957. For years, U.S. defense chiefs worried that the nation might not be able-or willing-to carry the necessary burden. But as the gross national product has increased, the burden has shrunk until it is less than 10% of the gross U.S. output, a load that has proved easy to carry...
...Novelist Hoffman has any one message, it is this: that those who fight a war, even in a just cause, must wear a burden of guilt for what war does. The theme is great, but it will not be given great treatment in this age until realistic novelists like Hoffman can distinguish between being brutally frank and frankly brutal...