Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pitching burden will in all probability fall on the shoulders of Page this afternoon for he is long overdue to take his place on the mound. He has not pitched since he faced the George-town team, in the third contest of the Southern trip and came out on the short end of a 4 to 2 score despite some crafty south pawing. He was scheduled to pitch one of the games last week but when ball games were continually being called off on account of the weather the interim between his turns in the mound was becoming longer...
Last night Coach Mitchell was undecided as to who would shoulder the pitching burden for the University. Either MacHale or Devens will be on the mound for Harvard...
...What, my gallant Marshal, . . . were you so afraid of my counterthrust? Or had it occurred to you that if, as was probable, I died before you, I should for ever have remained post mortem, under the weighty burden of your accusations? . . . Ah, Foch! Foch! . . . What a stain on your memory that you had to wait so many years to give vent to childish recriminations against me through the agency of another, who, whatever his merits, knew not the War as you and I lived...
...decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy rests on him and he carries off his part very well...
Suggested administrative expedient to ease the college president's burden: "a board of twelve; six members of the faculty, elected by the faculty; three honor seniors, elected by the class; and three alumni elected by the alumni association...