Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons, financial and otherwise, must be confined to lifting the level at the bottom. . . . [On freedom] : When the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing universities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added burden is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter...
...planted in a new, $10,000,000 palace in Geneva. Last week the German press took up the problem. Under Switzerland's new neutral position the further stay of "the one-sided power and propaganda apparatus of the League on Swiss soil must become a constant and embarrassing burden for the Swiss Government," warned the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung...
...build up its collection the company plans to spend $100,000 a year, most of which will doubtless be put up by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. President of Marine Studios, Inc. is W. Douglas Burden, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History; vice president, Count Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famed Russian novelist...
That the new burden is rubbing Germany raw is indicated in the May Deutscher Volkswirt, Dr. Schacht's organ, which reveals that in April, Greater Germany imported $10,400,000 more than she sold abroad. Of this, only $2,800,000 came into the old Reich, $7,600,000 was necessary for her new province...
Last week mountain folk from near & far gathered on the hills near Ashland, Ky. for Ashland's 8th annual American Folk Song Festival. Local roads were choked by the unaccustomed burden of some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman...