Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While many veterans have refused to prostitute their patriotic services and to accept pay for having done their natural and fundamental duty, a large number have assumed the attitude that the government should be mulcted of as much money as possible. This last group fails to realize that the burden of the proposed immediate bonus payments and the load of the wasted millions falls directly on all the people in the shape of taxes, and particularly on this younger generation to which the Great War is only a dim reality. Congress has already permitted veterans to borrow on their bonus...
...divide the commuters among the existent Houses, and give them full privileges in the dining halls, libraries, common rooms, and other facilities unique to the several Houses. Because there are seven hundred and twenty commuting undergraduates, such a division would add approximately one-third to the present burden on the capacities of each House. This plan does not appear to be feasible...
When primitive tribes come upon hard days, their pets and beasts of burden go hungry too, are eaten up if the famine gets bad enough. Besides pets and beasts of burden, civilized men keep animals for the education and amusement of their children. In good times zoo animals pay for their keep with their offspring. But just now the zoo animal market is at a standstill. Many a city faces the problem of how. with humans starving in the streets, to find money to keep its zoo alive. Last week President Williams B. Cadwalader of the Philadelphia Zoological Society addressed...
...lover is in Jefferson all right, but under a different name and in jail. Miss Burden, an eccentric spinster who has lived for years under the shadow of the town's disapproval, has been murdered...
...grandfather made it worse by hounding him religiously, lost the trail when Joe grew old enough to commit murder. Down a long Beale Street wandered Joe alone, passing as a white when he wanted to. but hating white and black alike. When they got him for the Burden killing his grandfather caught up with him again, went home happy when he had seen Joe's bullet-torn body. Philanderer Burch. who had hoped for the reward, missed out. but God-fearing Byron Bunch...