Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visiting lieutenant-colonel are ended when the regiment marches away. Maria Germanova plays Masha-a big, dark woman who laughs hysterically as her desires mount above her repressions and who whimpers like a wounded animal when her lover departs. Chekhov's humans are like impatient beasts of burden who see vaguely beyond their beastliness. Each is forever at odds with a sorrowful, unyielding desperation...
...undergraduate pulse, it seems fairly clear that the majority of undergraduates feel that the Reading Period falls far short of its purpose. To the outdated remnants of an older educational regime, such as hour examinations and weekly quizzes, they feel that it has added a new, and rather unpleasant burden...
...heavy burden of $12.00 a week would have added only $600 a year to Harvard's budget; somehow perhaps a sympathetic administration might have found some way to manage it, especially when one considers that $600 represents the income on only $10,000 and Harvard just received $5,000,000 with no strings attached. One is led to believe that the University administration was not particularly anxious to raise the money for when the Locker Building burned a few nights ago several hundred thousand dollars were raised within forty-eight hours to replace it. Harvard, as we know, exists almost...
...impossible for favoritism to creep in, especially in regard to substitutions. Obviously the burden on the captain would be out of proportion to that on any of the other eight men, and the captain's performance would most certainly suffer...
...continuing his study in a more advanced field or of turning his interest elsewhere. Shunting the languages back to the preparatory school is merely another effort to make such schools more than means to an end, and has the added quality of ridding the universities of an undesirable burden...