Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time college undergraduates have been struggling along under the burden of obeying or breaking the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. The majority of students, at least in the East, have been breaking the law. It has been an unhappy, hypocritical situation for everybody and nothing is more clear than that a change, and it can not be for the worst, is inevitable. There has been a hands-off attitude toward college students that drink, and, appreciating this, undergraduates have been persuaded to let things go on, hesitating to upset the delicate balance that exists among town, gown...
...entrance into the outside world. Added to these are the benefits which accrue to the employers and companies who cooperate in the plan; advance knowledge of a graduate's capabilities, and removal of the risk in selecting men, many of--whom later prove to be a disappointment and a burden...
...queer one: marriage and children not being allowed her, she has adopted old broken-down waifs and strays, who give her nothing but jealous abuse, but on whom she can spend-her affection. She knew that "life had no wonderful surprises after all and that its most difficult burden was the incommunicability of love." Chrysis thinks she has grown beyond passion, but in spite of herself falls in love with Pamphilus, most silent of her guests, the son of the principal man on the island. But one day Pamphilus meets Chrysis' younger sister, Glycerium, who has been kept hidden...
...pleasantly recall the Merrie England of the ballad. Robin Hood The Cast Sudworth Frazier Sheriff of Nottingham William Danforth Sir Guy Gisborne John Cherry Little John Greek Evans Will Scarlet Charles Galagher Friar Tuck William White Allan-a-Dale Lorna Doone Jackson Lady Marian Fitzwalter Olga Steck Dame Burden Sara Camp Annabel Gladys Heyser
...questions asked would be an invaluable aid for such a-review. The practical solution of the problem is that suggested in the letter. A simple announcement as to where the bluebooks may be secured after the grades have been filed in University Hall would do away with any added burden on the assistants of the courses...