Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit of clothes of that day now costs $50 and the same insinuations are being cast on the material purchased. Doubt less, the inauguration of the seven House units comes to many as a tangible explanation of advancing costs. It is by no means fair, however, to burden the House Plan with this responsibility...
...rising cost of government last week moved Senator William Edgar Borah to declare: "The ever-growing burden of taxation is one of the great factors in bringing about our present Depression. . . . The most wasteful and extravagant part of the Government is this bureaucracy, nation wide, which we are building up. ... In the last two years we have established 26 Government commissions with their thousands of employes...
...shortly be numbered in the depressing category of lost causes. ... Its founder. Dr. Peter Fireman, expected to be able to finance it until its income was sufficient to cover its expense. The depression has impaired his resources, so that he finds himself unable to bear the full burden. . . . We earnestly hope [that readers] will be moved to contribute to what we believe to be a significant journalistic enterprise...
With Devens out of the game the pitching burden will fall on W. H. MacHale '31 and W. K. Page '31. MacHale has a record of four victories and one defeat for the season and is one of the leading hurlers in Eastern collegiate baseball circles...
...going the disbursements for veteran relief will equal if not exceed the total cost of our expenditures during the World War [$21,850,000,000]. . . . Veterans must manifest a peacetime patriotism in future demands comparable to that which brought them honor in the War if the burden upon the Government is not to become intolerable and reaction impair their cause. If we teach our young men that service to our country means the Government thereafter must reward them irrespective of need, then we are undermining the very foundation of good citizenship...