Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Century, whose ill-concealed imperialism turns against us the very people we most need for friends in any plan of American defense. We must appreciate the South American nations with the kindly insight of Archibald MacLeish, not with a Kipling's rapacious eagerness for the white man's burden. No better guide for such insight can be found than this well-balalnced volume...
Harris advocated that "in general the tax program should aim to put, the greater burden on the well-to-do, but in this emergency it is important to cut down consumption of the masses." Taxation of the lower income groups is more effective in reducing consumption than taxation of the upper income class. Controlled inflation may even be necessary to bid up the prices on resources necessary for the defense effort...
Because the present system of restricted inter-House meals has received so much criticism from the students, and in order to lighten the burden of bookkeeping, the committee of House Masters has adopted an experimental plan which permits unlimited visiting in other dining halls, Dean Hanford announced last night...
...three objections which the Administrative Board mentioned in its original recommendation to the Faculty are of a weak and answerable nature. The plan, they say, would "place a heavy burden on the faculty." This burden can mean nothing more than the trouble of drumming up two sets of Generals hard enough to stump a Harvard Senior. But surely it will not overtax the professional chefs to cook up just one extra set of exams for mid-years of 1942. The present Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors will not be a problem, since they can use the three-year acceleration program...
...Generals were offered both at mid-years and at the end of the year." This does not reflect on the Seniors in question, but on those who make out the exams. The Seniors are allowed "no lowering of course reductions," so the argument falls back to the "heavy burden on the faculty...