Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present is the collapse of agricultural values, including that of raw silk, to a price level at which the farmers who make up half Japan's population simply cannot repay the bankers. The Government, conscious that the farmers are laboring under an unbearable load, hopes to lighten this burden by a devalorization of the yen, but how this is to be accomplished has not been decided...
...that is true. But the vanished Kipling is but the vanished empire, the current which vitalized Kipling was the imperial spirit of the Victorian age. A new race, which knows not the white man's burden, is at work. The White Hussars no longer drink to Queen and Empress in broken glass, and respect for the Sahib has ceased to awe the naygurs. Lalum, who was like unto Lilith, now imitates her western sisters as she sees them portrayed in the cinema...
...House of Representatives has passed a bill taxing the gate receipts of all exhibitions of sport ten percent. College football, the only amateur sport rich in revenue, is expected to yield about two and a half million dollars. Nothing could demonstrate better how subtly the burden of taxes may shift, defeating the intentions of the legislators and the theory underlying...
...bill places an unfair burden on college athletic budgets. It is intended to tax luxuries, but it taxes what has become a necessity. When the Senate considers the bill, it should, with due regard for the immunity of educational institutions from taxation, make some amendment allowing college sports to go untaxed...
...local officials will agree that the protection of the people's health is as important, although not as costly, a social responsibility as the education of their minds? May we assume that methods can be worked out that will enable the local government to help carry the financial burden without placing the dead hand of official red-tape or politics on scientific progress and skilled service...