Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he finished Chan Gurney knew he had made no dent in his 39 opponents' convictions. Two days had they argued that Army & Navy heads are not infallible, that Allies should bear their share of the war burden, that 18-and 19-year-old men are too young for bloody combat. Nobody thought to mention that most teen-agers were raring...
...Boston. In drawing up their budget, however, the heads of the Harvard Service Fund have maintained that the Harvard undergraduate is an integral part of the community, and that he cannot accept its police and fire protection, or hospital care if he is not willing to help shoulder the burden of its charities...
...smoldering issue of Franklin Roosevelt v. the U.S. Press and came up with a clear answer last week. Said he: "We are all suffering, the President and the newspapers, for want of a responsible, well informed and constructive [political] opposition. . . . For lack of this kind of dependable opposition, the burden of criticism has fallen almost entirely upon correspondents and editors and commentators...
...attractiveness of outside employment and the increased burden of the waiting work due to crowded conditions are the principal reasons for the departure of the waitresses, Duhig announced. Furthermore, he said that "students who applied for the jobs in August are finding that they now have less need and less enthusiasm than they thought...
...textbooks have to be dug out from the material of dozens of advanced courses. Officials of the department declare that the new system is injurious both to the student and to the department. The students are having a difficult time getting books from a staff harrassed by its usual burden of work, and the mismanaged distribution of syllabi in Government and History disrupted students' reading schedules...