Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement made earlier this year after Yale College tuition was boosted to $600 per year, stated that tuition for undergraduates would remain at the pre-war $400 figure in 1947-48, and that every effort was being made to raise funds by other means than an additional financial burden on the College student...
Harvard's position as "trustee for the learned world" accounts for over one-third of its library costs and is twice as heavy a burden as supplying undergraduate book needs, according to a University breakdown of its annual $1,200,000 library bill...
What are the world's chances of "settling down" so that the burden of these armaments can be lightened? In one sense, that depends on confidence in the United Nations. More immediately, it depends on the settlement of outstanding issues, nearly all of which are related to the Communist drive for domination. The Chinese, for example, are not going to demobilize until one side or the other wins the civil war. Turkey is an even more pertinent example. It has an army of 675,000 (slightly larger than the U.S. force) mobilized against Russian pressure. Turkey is not going...
Money. As Government and secular agencies have been taking on more & more of the burden of social welfare, church expenditures in this field have been going down. Despite a rise in consumer income of $10 billion between 1929 and 1941, contributions to churches and social welfare institutions dropped from $1.5 billion to $1.2 billion. And to churches "families at the lowest income levels contributed more generously than those at the highest...
...Schmitz and Georg von Schnitzler, sales manager, who were mainly responsible for the growth of Farben into the world's most powerful chemical giant. The U.S. charged the 24 civilians with fomenting and waging aggressive war, mass murder, plunder and "complete synchronization" with the Nazi High Command. The burden of the indictment was that, without Farben, the Nazis could not have...