Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states,* they noted, have Jim Crow laws. Eighteen states specifically forbid segregation. Said Justice Reed, of Kentucky: segregation imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce. In other words, it is too much trouble to have bus riders changing seats as buses roll from one state to another. The Justices held that segregation on interstate buses is illegal...
...structures built by the Army, it was hoped that upwards of 800 families could comfortably be taken care of at this so-called Harvard colony. Train service to and from the Devens-Ayer area was reported to be excellent, and arrangements to increase the service were made should the burden of student commuters prove too heavy. The availability of shopping centers, hospitals, and recreation facilities were all cited as advantages to this, the University's most ambitious undertaking in the field of housing...
Quonset huts, which the University has so far managed to avoid in favor of the more satisfactory FPHA units, will bear the burden of Yale's load of married students. An even 100 of these huts, housing 200 families, will reportedly be ready for occupancy at the end of their current term, while such space as that in Ray Tompkins House of the Yale A. A. normally used to house visiting athletic teams, is slated to be utilized in the emergency, by single students, for whom Yale is also attempting to obtain Army barracks...
...explanation by Secretary of the Treasury Vinson, of why paying the public debt will be no burden to U.S. taxpayers: "You lend to yourself, borrow from yourself, you pay interest to yourself on the money you borrowed from yourself, but which you yourself still have. To pay it back, merely take it from yourself and pay it to yourself...
...picture unless I have good reason to believe that it is not harmful to me,' not, 'I am allowed to see a picture unless I have good reason to believe that it is harmful to me.' ... In other words . . . the burden of proof rests on the individual to prove that he may attend without grave danger...