Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing of the past; requirements for a degree are not as confining as heretofore. In the future his educational opportunities will be more than ever one of personal selection, and the success which he makes of them dependent to a greater extent upon his own initiative. By increasing the burden, it is expected he will meet his added responsibilities. The new curriculum announces that the time for this greater responsibility and freedom is at hand. If the student fails to take advantage of the education offered and neglects his work, an axe, self-administered, will without ceremony cut short...
...last week's audience that he failed twice in business before he was taken into the family brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co., that his generosity ran him close to bankruptcy again in his eightieth year (1914) when his brother, the late Francis Lee Higginson, anonymously took over the burden of the orchestra...
...that floating loans at this time will not solve the difficulty permanently, and at the same time will increase the annual budget. According to the majority of Republican leaders the inevitable return to "prosperity" will obviate any further increase in taxation, but prosperity is a variable factor and the burden of interest will put a strain on the government's credit in the future...
...latest to raise his voice in protest at the majority Republican policy of meeting the impending federal deflcit by large scale borrowing. He champions in its stead a taxation of a greater proportion of the population. Under the present system corporations and the very wealthy bear the chief burden of national support. Mr. Bingham believes that the more people paying taxes, the greater will be the sense of public responsibility for national economy. At present, he feels that the un-taxes portion of the public forces large appropriations from the government under the impression that it is getting something...
...stag from dying 'in old age of starvation from loss of teeth'-to accept that might be to run the risk of being invited to hunt old-age pensioners on the ground that we should not only spare them the pain of toothache but also reduce the burden on the National Exchequer. It is about as convincing as the suggestion, supplied by a peer of the realm in a pamphlet recently put out by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, that the stag deserves to be hunted because 'he is a selfish old fellow, much addicted...