Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is something essential lacking in European civilization, some poison which eats into it and brings about a war every 20 years. For the average Asiatic in this war the prestige of Europe has suffered tremendously. . . . The fall of France showed up the rottenness of Western imperialism and the burden which it imposed on the people of the West. . . . Much later came the fall of Burma and Malay. This, at any rate, was a direct lesson to the British that their empire was going to pieces. But the astounding thing is that it has had little or no effect...
Pioneering a new field of research and education, the Business School announced yesterday a revolutionary program for the study and teaching of air transportation and manufacturing. An advisory committee, headed by William A. M. Burden '27, newly appointed Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, has been named to promote and organize the plan...
...answers chiseled Admiral Leahy's new post down to a nub. Heretofore, said the President, he had spent a lot of time on strategy; he had been forced to read a great deal, see many people. Now Admiral Leahy would save him time by assuming some of the burden: the Chief of Staff would do the "leg work" (from the newspaper term for reporters who gather news and turn it in to a writer), the indexing, the summarizing...
...pound, railroad ties from 90? to $1.60 each, wages from 80 and 90? to $1.30 and $1.40 per day, etc. To this one must add the extra cost of transportation caused by the storing of sugar in a few predetermined Cuban ports, and also the burden of war taxes...
...House was no deterrent: U.S. citizens still clamored for a unified command of Army & Navy, demanded that there should be a military man at the top. This week Franklin D. Roosevelt entered formal recognition of an obvious need. He appointed a Chief of Staff to take some of the burden of high command off his hands...