Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Fenn, prospects for the year are fair, with Carl Sullivan, Don Wilson, and Johnnie Moot scheduled to bear much of the burden. A new unlimited substitution rule will damage Crimson chances, for the squad numbers only...
...House, apparently nobody had been present when the pension bill passed without a recorded vote. Papers back home were flooded with honest-I-never-dunnit letters from Congressmen explaining that they had been ill, at the dentist's, out to lunch, writing a speech, carrying the burden of the war. This week the House would get a chance to vote on the repealer. The record would show that little brown pixies had sneaked into the Cham ber, passed pensions while Congress was away, or snoozing...
...broadcasters themselves studied radio, admitted that something was wrong. One thing wrong: now that the burden of news broadcasts is so grave, their commercials are at best a distraction, at worst an insult to the listener. Last fortnight, at the instance of the Broadcasters' Victory Council, a committee of the National Association of Broadcasters recommended certain minimum rules for news program commercials. Among them...
Indicating that the cases above mentioned and a few others were the exception rather than the rule, the volunteer officials who did the real dirty work yesterday and Sunday said the average registrant was eager to do his bit to lighten the burden of enrolling 7,000,000 men on the government's books...
...returning to Harvard, Boston coached the Yardling gridders for two seasons and last year the Yardling grapplers. This winter he added the burden of the Varsity wrestling team...