Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prelates: "The introduction of force into the most personal and delicate point of private life and of human personality would be a trampling without conscience on one of the most highly prized ideals of universal humanity. . . . Whoever places legitimate and illegitimate motherhood on the same level places a burden on the ideal of motherhood and the value of woman...
...regard it as a pre-examination breathing spell, the reading period was originally adopted, back in 1927-28, in order to provide a greatly overtaxed Harvard faculty with a periodic relief from formal academic duties, which they might devote to independent study. The Faculty, required to assume a double burden in teaching at both undergraduate and graduate schools, were able to use advantageously a period of three weeks each term, like the famed "long vacations" of the English universities. Upperclassmen, faced with general examinations, welcomed the spring reading period especially; and it was felt that the new institution would...
...main work of creating the fabric of a new political life in Germany must certainly be in the hands of the men and women who remained in Germany and survived the long Nazi tyranny. They are the ones who have borne the burden and heat of the long struggle against the Gestapo terror. They have been in touch with the masses...
...Trondheim fleet actually includes two carriers, they are probably converted merchantmen (the Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland are not thought to be ready). The British feel that they could lick such a force. But the burden of keeping enough ships at hand to counter the many moves open to this fleet in being has a "momentous effect" on Allied strategy...
...world that carried the hopes and the work of millions as it wheeled in its circle of the sun carried the burden of war and the misery that flowed from its worship of false gods. From Pearl Harbor to Warsaw the life of the times whispered the agony of that worship, If the new terms of the new world were not to be wild echoes of the past or the wild grasping for a new turbulence, they could begin with the truth. If democracy reborn is based on belief in the dignity of man, that dignity carries with...