Word: burdening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Davis led the line which played well all season; Marvin Jenkins copped the Crimson scoring honors, although he played in but the first two games. The shifty halfback tallied 25 points, beating out Bob Cowen by one. Wally Trumbull put in a good quarter-backing job, carrying the main burden of the punting and blocking...
...first hand. His lean, leathery figure, bedroll and knapsack slung over his shoulder, became a familiar one, tramping across China's flat, dusty, northern countryside. He liked to mingle with the chiupa, the rugged riflemen who, since the Manchu dynasty was overthrown (1911), have borne the burden of their nation's endless civil wars...
...talented footballers of the U.S. Naval Academy had the bad luck to be selected national champions before they played a single game. It was a burden that even Navy's powerful line and great backfield could not carry: they bowed twice, on flukes and fumbles, to North Carolina Pre-Flight and to Georgia Tech. Then they came back to wallop Pennsylvania, 26-to-0. Last week at Baltimore, Navy's big guns poured broadside after broadside into unbeaten Notre Dame. Final score: Navy 32, Notre Dame...
...that they are all barriers which will reduce the total amount of world trade and everybody's absolute share in it, including that of Britain. Setting the world back to the trade conditions of the '30s is not likely to promote either prosperity or world peace. The burden of proof that this will not happen rests on those who propose such measures...
...Shift more of the burden of financing the federal Government onto the individual income tax-that is, lighten corporation and excise taxes...