Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here again is an impasse. Raising the tuition fee would deprive a number of men of higher education. Scholarships would have to provide their fees and additional scholarships would put further burden on those President Angell says are near the end of their capacity or willingness...
...fairy story of Explorer and Mrs. Douglas Burden's dragon hunt in the Dutch East Indies ended, like any good fairy story, with the death of the dragons. The Burdens took their monsters home to Manhattan safely (TIME, Sept. 20), but there they died, after several months' captivity in Bronx Zoo, unable to survive in the chill climate and on a cage diet. Last week curators of the American Museum of Natural History announced that the dead dragons were nearly ready for exhibition in the new Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted...
...will be much larger in 25 years than under the insurance plan, where much money is bound to be dissipated in lapsed policies and in profit for the insurance company. At the same time the chief idea of the insurance plan is gained; that is, the spreading of the burden over the full period of years. Last and most important, the committee believes very strongly in the principle of purly voluntary giving, finding something repugnant in the idea of calling in outsiders to force Harvard men to make gifts to Harvard University...
...total Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon expects.* Some, puzzling over the instructions, were gripped by despair, saw the five-year prison terms and $10,000 fines provided in Section 28 of the Instructions for false or delayed returns, staring them in the face. Most will not find the burden overheavy The $30 a week clerk will find his contribution somewhat less than a dollar; married bricklayers or newspaper correspondents with an income averaging $75 a week will pay between $5 and $6. But there will be some good-sized checks. For example, of his $100,000 of taxible income, the financier...
...books by U. S. commentators upon Europe. They quote no ballads, songs or snatches; but one, a young Columbia University Assistant Professor "on the make" has turned out a very crisp and searing exposé5 of the hypocritical process by which the white man shoulders a "burden" of profitable produce which he has made the colonial native extract from soil rightly his. The other U. S. ruminator cited is the Editor of Foreign Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply "mountains"; and then proceeds to untangle the Balkan post...