Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people wanted facts-no matter how hard, cold, disillusioning. In every way they knew how, Americans asked last week-How grave the peril? How great the sacrifices? How heavy the burden? How huge the task? Franklin Roosevelt was the man they wanted the answer from...
...week to two and a half months) ; so must further drafts. Only heartening item in this list was the rapid increase in Regulars (up from 242,000 since last June). Putting Regular enlistments ahead of Guard mobilization and the draft made sense, because the Regulars must bear the burden of training the new Army...
...statistics which Britain still had to keep secret last week, but Blitz death figures were available, significant. These add up to the fact that, taking the British life-insurance business as a whole, the extra risk which the Blitz has imposed on underwriting firms thus far is an additional burden of less than one quarter of one per cent. Of the 47,000,000 people in the United Kingdom, the Führer's assaults had killed up to Oct. 31 only 14,700. Accordingly, Winston Churchill last week proposed no immediate Government venture in blanket wartime life insurance...
Least arty of all arts is the Hollywood cinema. But many a famed movie star, toiling under the burden of Hollywood's glamor and high salaries, has cursed a secret craving for the higher things. How great this craving has grown was made evident last fortnight when Los Angeles Art Dealer Robert Gump put on an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photographs and ceramics by celebrities of Southern California's social and cinema world-"important contributions to the Fine Arts by 30 outstanding personalities whose significance in their avocations is little known." Most presentable piece was a craftsmanlike etching...
...correction. Since our poll was not intended as a "weapon," it could not "boomerang." Our aim was to find the truth. If we have failed in that it remains for others to do a better job. We have facts to back up our conclusion; when you make charges, the burden of proof...