Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the schoolboys' scores were made in the first half by Hoague, their star fullback, who led the Academy attack. The brunt of the burden for the Freshmen was borne by Torbet Macdonald, whose passing, running, and defensive work were all that saved the Yardlings from a more overwhelming defeat...
...within a short space of time. Washington has been bordering on chaos. Much of this legislation may be highly desirable in principle. It is in grave danger of falling into disrepute, however, merely because of the haste with which it was enacted and the impossible burden assumed by the executive branch of the government. By its own rash action, the New Deal has been imperilling true social reform...
...respect and confidence. The student body has refused to see in a series of defeats any permanent omen. This season the Boston newspapers have been very considerate, especially for Boston newspapers. There is every hope that the Dartmouth game will prove Harlow's Battle of the Marne, and the burden to be born by the undergraduates is as important as that of the team itself...
...other student body. But we do believe that it is high time that somebody made the first move toward eradicating a situation "which seriously menaces the future of the sport as an intercollegiate activity". We are proud of the fact that Princeton is willing to bear the thankless burden of the pioneer. --The Princetonian
...labor movement, of feminists, spies, social leaders, patronesses of art, expatriate writers, journalists. Last week a blank space in this growing record of current experience was filled in with a sober, conscientious, 678-page study of the world of radical U. S. intellectuals. Almost too long for its burden of events, too short for its burden of ideas, An American Testament pictures an environment that no other autobiographer has described so fully-the shifting, seething little world of impoverished and defiant Greenwich Village scriveners, of radical magazines run on a shoestring, of fierce controversies on esthetic and political subjects...