Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes may be partially affected, possibly 150,000 let out. Since the average service of railway men is notably long, this would put a heavy burden on the railroads. Another possibility was expressed by President John Marcus Davis of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western: "If traffic increases as much as 10%, the railroads will be able to take care of most of their men and there will be little need for displacing them and applying to them the terms of the agreement...
...screen this week is displaying the new Carole Lombard opus. "The Princess Comes Across" and the boards are carrying the weighty burden of a Cliff Edwards hodge-podge. The film is of the light comedy type and tells all about how a fake princess gets involved in murderous doing on a great trans-Atlantic liner. It's really not bad. Real royalty is sporting itself upon the Loew's screens in the handsome persons of Grace Moore and Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz...
...seize opportunities to which he would otherwise be blind. The private schools do not require technical study of Education, although some of them are beginning to value it; but they favor intensive scholarship in a subject and offer more opportunity to teach in one chosen field, without the burden of teaching in unrelated fields--than many of the public schools. The new Harvard program for the preparation of teachers meets all these conditions. It puts the prospective teacher in a position to take advantage of opportunities for advancement...
...criticisms in effect have stressed the impossibility of affording each and every student adequate tutoring. Neither time, money nor men can be found in sufficient abundance to make this scheme practicable, and the burden becomes even heavier in view of the fact that many men are not interested in tutorial opportunities and prefer to work alone. Therefore, under the present system the tutorial market is glutted either with drifters, or else hard-working but convinced foes of the regime...
...every department should be required to take care of a few of the more promising tutees, inasmuch as these older men, theoretically, would make the best tutors and would stimulate students to greater study. This would allow for a further reduction in the number of faculty men, a lighter burden on each man, and higher salaries...