Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citizens of the town of Holmfirth, Yorkshire, felt last week that the war was getting really too demanding. The town was gladly carrying its share of Britain's military and economic burden. But many townsmen wondered whether, on top of this, they had to go on putting up with their fellow townsman Wilfred Overend's idea of a good time...
...difficulties in this recommendation are three-fold. There would, the Board agreed, be a lowering of standards if General Examinations were offered both at mid-years, and at the end of the year, Also, General Examinations at mid-years would place a very heavy burden on the Faculty. In the third place, they would lead to an interruption of course work during the first half-year...
...practice of offering general examinations both at mid-years and at the end of the year would lead, according to current Faculty opinion, to a lowering of academic standards and would place a heavy burden on the examining boards...
Like most other provisions of the new income-tax schedule, lower exemptions produced the biggest percentage increase in the taxes of people with small and moderate incomes (see box). And most of the new tax burden had to be borne by people of moderate means. For all but a meager 10⅓% of the nation's aggregate income goes to people who earn $15,000 or less. And the taxes of the rich are already high-43% on a $100,000 income, 72% on a $1,000,000 income...
...prolific third of our population are now carrying the weight of the burden in this country, while two-thirds of the people are not even reproducing their own numbers, according to Zimmerman. Whereas at the present time the army is taking only a small percentage of the people in this country, it is putting out of circulation almost half of the reproducing power. It is up to the remaining to see that this loss is regained elsewhere...