Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Dramatic Club presents as its fifty-fifth production "Straight Scotch," a sentimental little piece by Francis R. Hart, Jr., dog lover, the burden of the play being the praise of Scotch terriers. The show has genuine entertainment values in a mild, easy-going way, despite the plainness of the dialogue and the case of foreseeing the dramatic surprises. The author's enthusiasm for Scotties is contagious, although not necessarily in kind; that is, although you may come out feeling no differently about Scotch terriers, you are likely to be generally improved in spirits...
...board rate will rise accordingly--perhaps to the extent of an extra fifty cents a week, were the wage scale raised, for instance, to eighteen dollars for waitresses. With a relatively insignificant amount of surplus profit to spend freely, Harvard has no other alternative than to throw a heavier burden upon student shoulders...
Last year the Athletic Association was relieved of the burden of supporting compulsory physical education for Freshmen, an item amounting of $25,483.54, by the College...
Sullivan and Grubbs deplored the tremendous grant of arbitrary power to a board of three men without judicial qualifications, pointing out that a small board must necessarily be swamped by the terrific burden of work...
...finance this huge waste has been a great burden to Brazilian farmers and to the D.N.C. which now has a $72,000,000 deficit. Meanwhile, world coffee prices have notably failed to rise. From 20? a lb. in 1929, coffee fell to 7? in 1933. Highest level since has been 11½ touched early this year following a conference in Bogota which seemed to promise that Brazil might finally get some cooperation from other coffee producing nations. For that is the crux of the problem. While Brazil has rigorously and painfully sliced away at her own surplus, necessarily sacrificing some...