Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implications than the purely declaratory utterance of the Kellogg Pact. Dr. Lowell says that "we are entitled to take the steps necessary to cause the observance of the treaty." But to be "entitled" to take such a step is one thing, and to take upon our shoulders the burden of the suspension of commercial relations with a nation which refuses to keep its word pledged in the treaty, is not a part of the national duty. Dr. Lowell's proposition, we fear, has in it a much more distinct purpose to make Uncle Sam the policeman of the universe than...
These disturbances caused by a very small minority endanger the good name of the University and the reputation of the undergraduates. It is evident that such a group does not realize the seriousness of these incidents. The property damaged is a metro traffic compared to the burden placed upon the Boston Elevated because of their responsibility for the welfare of their passengers. Men who start these disturbances subject all passengers who may be on the train at the time to inconvenience as well as chance of serious injury. These passengers may sue the Boston Elevated for any harm that comes...
...burden of the first Five-Year Plan has fallen most heavily lately on the bulky shoulders of Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, chairman of the Supreme Economic Council until three weeks ago, the weight of the second Piatiletka will be carried mostly by a hitherto minor figure in Russian industry, Isidor E. Liubimov, onetime Deputy Commissar of Trade and delegate to the London wheat conference last spring. In preparation for the new plan, the Supreme Economic Council was recently reorganized into three separate departments?Heavy Industry, Light Industry and Lumber (TIME, Jan. 18). Commissar Liubimov will have the stupendous task of providing Russia...
...both to the undergraduates and to his colleagues of the faculty. After 32 years of activity at Harvard in the fields of sociology and economics Professor Carver is retiring to be better able to formulate the results of his research and to enjoy an academic life without the routine burden of college work...
...hangs over the place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...