Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's financial burden were a normal one we might logically consider keeping on paying approximately two billion marks [about $480,000,000] annual reparations. As it is, we simply cannot go on with it. Adding the interest on foreign loans the total comes up to three billion marks [about $720,000,000] yearly, while we are burdened beforehand with immense internal expenditures resulting from liquidation of the War and the necessity of providing subsistence for several million of our people who are suffering from enforced idleness. We must take care of more than 3,000,000 unemployed...
...manifest madness in times such as these when not only the United States but the whole world is in the throes of a severe depression and millions of people are in want that we should heap on the backs of business men and workers the gigantic financial burden of great armies and navies. If Armistice Day has a purpose it should be the forming of the resolve to bring to an end the present excessive armaments and the great tax burdens of which they are the cause...
...works for, but doesn't interrupt her wedding after all. A bitter woman sacrifices her secret formula for the best bread ever baked. A burglar willy-nilly witnesses a death scene, is converted by it, comes forward to explain, is arrested. An old man knows he is a burden, takes care that his suicide shall give as little trouble as possible. Zona Gale has seen through the salability of plot to the necessity of a story. Her prosy people are simplified into poetics...
Mays appeared yesterday in knickers, but probably will see a little service on Saturday. His condition, however, is not the best, and as the backfield yesterday was composed of Wood, Huguley, Crickard, and Shereschewsky, it seems that this quartet will bear the bulk of the burden...
...equalization of the burden of athletic expenses could be brought about by issuing a coupon book similar to the present H. A. A. book but designed solely for the participator. The coupons could pay for lockers towels and the maintenance of athletic equipment. Members of university teams and freshmen taking compulsory exercise would naturally be exempt from the upkeep charges. The price of these coupon books should be moderate so that those men, whose studies and laboratory work allow only intermittent exercise could benefit by the saving incurred in using all the coupons. A system such as this would...